Betts Park

Introduction

The park slopes to the south and is almost entirely surrounded by residential housing, some of it high-rise. Trees include mature oaks, pollard willow, holm oak, London plane and a mulberry, and there are remains of a shrubbery with holm oak, laurel and yew. Horse chestnut trees line a tarmac walk from Anerley Road south-west across the park. The brick base of a drinking fountain survives to the north and from this point there are views across the surprisingly wooded landscape of Croydon.