Penge is a suburb of South East London, England, now in the London Borough of Bromley, 3.5 miles west of Bromley, 3.7 miles north east of Croydon and 7.1 miles south east of Charing Cross. The name Penge is first attested in charter of 1067, as penceat, and in a twelfth-century copy of a charter of 957 as pænge (where the place is described as a "wo…
Penge is a suburb of South East London, England, now in the London Borough of Bromley, 3.5 miles west of Bromley, 3.7 miles north east of Croydon and 7.1 miles south east of Charing Cross. The name Penge is first attested in charter of 1067, as penceat, and in a twelfth-century copy of a charter of 957 as pænge (where the place is described as a "wood". The name comes from the Common Brittonic words that survive in modern Welsh as pen and coed, and thus it once meant "end of the wood", like a number of similar names, including Pencoed in Wales.
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