Knight's Hill ward
The A214 Crown Dale and Crown Lane between Elder Road and Leigham Court Road mark the southern boundary of Knights Hill ward. The boundary then goes up Leigham Court Road to Leigham Vale where it then follows an intersection with the railway line round to York Road.
The boundary is marked on the eastern side by the A215 Norwood Road and the B232 Norwood High Street until meeting back up with Crown Dale.
See a map of Knight's Hill ward
- West Norwood train station is in the ward.
- Schools include Norwood School for Girls, St Luke's and Crown Lane.
- Sports facilities include Knight's Hill Recreation Ground.
- The larger estates are Portobello, Fern Lodge, Holderness, Woodvale, Linton Grove, Hainthorpe and York Hill.
Statistics
The National Statistics page on Knight's Hill ward provides a comprehensive set of statistics on education, economics, access to services, lifestyle, physical environment and much more.
Headline statistics
- The population of Knight's Hill ward rose from 11,981 in 1991 to 13,687, an increase of 14.2%. This is 5.1% of the borough population. Knights hill has an area of 146.8 hectares (5.4% of the borough). For the local elections in May 2002, there were 9,431 electors.
- Knights Hill has high numbers of people with long term limiting illness, and the highest proportion of those people aged 65+.
- The ward has a high proportion of people aged 60+ and a high number of older people in communal establishments.
- Knights Hill has a high proportion of "other" (i.e. not family, not single person) pensioner households with no central heating. Around 60 non-pensioner one-person households in Knights Hill have poor amenities. It has a high proportion of overcrowded council and RSL rented lone parent households with dependent children.