* St John Fisher Catholic High schools in Harrogate, Wigan, Dewsbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Bracken Ridge ( Qld, Australia ) are named after him, as is Purley John Fisher RFC and Fisher Athletic F. C.

* John Fisher School, Purley

* John Harrison former Technical & Commercial Director Royal Opera House lives in Purley.

* John Horne Tooke, an English politician and philologist, lived in Purley at the end of the 18th century where he began writing Epea Pteroenta, Or, The Diversions of Purley.

* Home of Purley John Fisher Rugby Football Club

He was educated at Wadham College, Oxford, gaining a BA in Classics and a DipEd, and worked as a school teacher of classics at The John Fisher School, a grammar school in Purley from 1959-67.

He is of Ghanaian heritage and attended the selective The John Fisher School in Purley.

Sackey started playing rugby at 17, when he went to the selective The John Fisher School in Purley, and started out as a centre or fullback.

* Thornton Heath the Croydon bypass, Thornton Road and then Purley Way ( known for its superstores, particularly Ikea, and for the site of Croydon Airport ) takes the place of the original road through Croydon, now the A235, rejoining the A23 at Purley near the Purley War Memorial Hospital, now named Brighton Road.

The LEC car was designed by Mike Pilbeam for David Purley, and named after the family refrigeration business that had backed Purley's previous racing efforts.

* Old Ordnance Survey map of the area as in the 1920s: see the word " Aerodrome " between the two roads going north-northwest from Purley ; the westerly of those two roads is Plough Lane.

For centuries, Kenley was part of Coulsdon Manor which covered the whole area now known as Coulsdon, Old Coulsdon, Purley and Kenley.

* Croydon: Addiscombe, Coulsdon, Croydon South, Croydon West, New Addington, Norwood South, Norwood Upper, Old Coulsdon, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon, Thornton Heath, Waddon.

Formerly within the administrative county of Surrey, as part of the Urban District of Coulsdon and Purley, boundary changes, London Government Act 1963, meant that in 1965 it became part of the Greater London Borough of Croydon.

* Coulsdon Sixth Form College ( Formerly Purley High School For Boys )

Prominent members of the new Council are residents of Purley & of Woodcote ( now part of Coulsdon West Ward )

After concerns were raised about the rapid development of the village a committee was formed to ensure that an area of would be set aside and saved for a nature reserve and bird sanctuary which was opened to the public in 1936 and given to the National Trust after Coulsdon and Purley District Council and the Corporation of Croydon agreed to manage it jointly.

The M23 was planned to relieve congestion on the A23 through Streatham, Thornton Heath, Purley and Coulsdon in south London and was originally intended to terminate in Streatham Vale at a junction with the controversial London Ringways Plan's Ringway 2 ( the intended replacement of the South Circular Road ( A205 )).

The line was subsequently extended as the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway through Purley and Coulsdon to serve quarries near Merstham, opened in 1805 and closed in 1838.

It borders Purley, Coulsdon, Riddlesdown, Caterham and Whyteleafe.

The Advertiser is Croydon's major paid-for weekly newspaper and is on sale every Friday in five geographical editions: Croydon ; Sutton & Epsom ; Coulsdon & Purley ; New Addington ; and Caterham.

From 1915 to 1965 it formed a parish in the Coulsdon and Purley Urban District of Surrey.

The station was renamed ‘’ Purley ’’ on 1 October 1888, and rebuilt around 1896 during the widening of the main line between Croydon and the beginning of the new Quarry Line at Coulsdon.

Buses run to Croydon, Coulsdon, Purley and Redhill town centre.

Until 1983, trains to London Victoria from Coulsdon North stopped on Platform 1 ( calling at South and East Croydon, Clapham Junction and Victoria ), with returning trains stopping at Platform 2 ( calling at Purley and Coulsdon North ).

Coulsdon North closed in 1983, and Platform 1 at Purley Oaks was gutted by fire in 1989 ; Croydon Model Railway Society's clubrooms on Platform 1 were destroyed in the blaze.

* xx07 to Merstham, Coulsdon South, Purley, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, New Cross Gate and London Bridge ( Southern )

* xx19 to Merstham, Coulsdon South, Purley, East Croydon, Norwood Junction and London Bridge ( Southern )

* xx37 to Merstham, Coulsdon South, Purley, East Croydon, Norwood Junction, New Cross Gate and London Bridge ( Southern )

* xx51 to Coulsdon South, Purley, East Croydon, Norwood Junction and London Bridge ( Southern )

In 1974, much of the constituency became part of Croydon South following the 1965 transfer of Purley and Coulsdon to the London Borough of Croydon in Greater London, with Surrey East taking in much of the area to the south that had been in Reigate since 1950.

* Coulsdon East, Coulsdon West, Croham, Kenley, Purley, Sanderstead, Selsdon and Ballards, Waddon

* February 12 – The electric car belonging to Henry Lindfield of Brighton runs away on a hill in Purley, London, England, and hits a tree ; thus he becomes the world's first fatality from an automobile accident on the public highway.

** The Purley Station rail crash in London leaves 5 dead and 94 injured.

It is located in Purley, Surrey.

Purley is a place in the London Borough of Croydon, England.

Purley used to have many different kinds of retail shops such as greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers, card shops, sport shops, etc.

The island opposite Purley Baptist Church has been refurbished and the Church, under the banner of 58: 12 ( a company and charity set up by the Church ) are planning to redevelop it.

Other partners in the development of a strategy for the regeneration of central Purley include the Purley & Woodcote Residents ' Association and Purley Rotary who actively participate in the Neighbourhood Partnership forums hosted by Croydon Council.

Purley has consistently returned Conservative Party MPs to the local seat of Croydon South and has also returned Conservative members to the local council.

The sitcom was set on the cusp of Purley and Wallington ( on Church Road in a house within sight of St Mark's Church ) and the opening credits featured them searching for one another around the ( now unrecognisable ) Whitgift Centre – a shopping precinct in central Croydon.

* One of the houses used in Footballer's Wives is in Purley.

* Purley is the location of Dr. Seward's sanatorium in the theatrical version of Bram Stoker's " Dracula ".

* The CBBC show Little Howard's Big Question is based in Purley, with Big Howard, Little Howard and MOTHER.

* Jay Aston, singer with Bucks Fizz, born in Purley.

* Derren Brown, famous magician and mentalist, was born and grew up in Purley.

* June Brown, actress, used to live in South Croydon near Purley but moved after the death of her husband and a notorious murder.

* Nigel Harman, actor, was born and grew up in Purley.

* Sir Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's former press secretary, lives in Purley.

* Sir David P. Lane, Oncologist best known for identifying P53 went to school and grew up in Purley.