Gipsy Hill and grew up on the Central Hill Estate. Charles Spurgeon (1834–1892) highly influential English Particular Baptist minister known as the Prince of Preachers was Pastor of Metropolitan Tabernacle from 1854 to 1892 and lived in Upper Norwood at Westwood on Beulah Hill from 1880 until his death. The namesake of Spurgeon Road. Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929), suffragette and Shakespearean scholar, organized cultural groups in Upper Norwood in the 1880s. Marie Stopes (1880–1958), a botanist and birth-control advocate who opened the first birth control clinic in Britain. Sir William Treloar (1843–1923), a Sheriff and Lord Mayor of London lived at Grange Mount, a house situated at the junction of Grange Road and Beulah Hill. Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott (1824–1895), Lord Mayor of London 1879–1880, lived at Essex Lodge on Central Hill. Sir George Wyatt Truscott (1857–1941), son of the above, also Lord Mayor of London 1908–1909, lived at Emilena House, Central Hill. Émile Zola (1840–1902), French novelist, lived in exile at the Queen's Hotel on Church Road, here from October 1898 to June 1899. Nearest places Anerley Croydon Crystal Palace Dulwich Gipsy Hill Norbury Penge Streatham Streatham Common Selhurst South Norwood Sydenham Tulse Hill Thornton Heath West Norwood Nearest stations Crystal Palace railway station (East London Line services from 2010) Gipsy Hill railway station West Norwood railway station Thornton Heath railway station References Sources Alan R. Warwick; The Phoenix Suburb: A South London Social History; Publisher: Crystal Palace Foundation; / 0904034011 Brewer's Britain and Ireland, compiled by John Ayto and Ian Crofton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, External links Upper Norwood Library – Independent Public Library Virtual Norwood Norwood Society www.uppernorwood.com Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Bromley Districts of the London Borough of Croydon Districts of the London Borough of Lambeth Districts of the London Borough of Southwark District centres of London