Norbury, UK
Where I was born.
Location
• Norbury is in SW London
• 6 min. (train) to Clapham Jct. and 18 min. to
Victoria Stn.
• Most people from Norbury head into nearby
Croydon for shopping and nearby Streatham
Common for picnics in the summer
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Norbury is in…
London Borough of Croydon
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Place
Physical characteristics:
• Dense, urban; mainly two-storey row-houses
• A few scattered parks
• Commercial buildings along the arterial road,
Streatham High Rd.
Place
Cultural characteristics:
• Since the eighties, a shift from predominantly
Anglo-Saxon to a greater mix of ethnicities
including people with Somali and Pakistani
roots
• Arabic is widely spoken and the predominant
religion is Islam