Includes information for The Cronx Brewery
Brewery, beer firm
6 Vulcan Business Centre, Vulcan Way, New Addington, Croydon CR0 9UG (Croydon)
titseybrewingco.com
First sold beer: 6 August 2012 (as The Cronx)
Brewing suspended: by August 2024
Brewing resumed: Summer 2025 (as Titsey)
Drinks wholesaler Mark Russell and city worker-turned-brewer Simon Dale founded the Cronx as the first standalone brewery in Croydon since Page and Overton closed in 1954, operating from a 20 hl plant in an industrial estate in New Addington.
The name jokingly blended the name of an equally outlying New York City borough with Croydon’s postcode.
The production site, while open for pre-arranged collection, was unsuitable for a regular taproom. In October 2016, the brewery opened an off-site taproom as one of inaugural businesses at the Boxpark next door to East Croydon station, but a combination of circumstances led to them giving up the lease on this in September 2021. A new taproom finally opened in central Croydon (71 High Street CR0 1QE) in May 2023.
Fermentation capacity increased several times and Simon moved on, but Mark remained as managing director. As a long-time Crystal Palace fan, in 2019 he secured a contract to supply the bars at the football club’s Selhurst Park stadium, creating a specially brewed beer.
Following financial and management difficulties, brewing ceased by August 2024, with voluntary liquidators appointed in November. Mark acquired the brand and recipes and cuckoo brewed, primarily to supply Selhurst Park, but with an intention of restarting production in Croydon.
The central Croydon taproom, which had a separate ownership arrangement, closed in September 2024.
Titsey Brewing subsequently acquired the Cronx site and equipment in summer 2025 as an addition to its own site in the Surrey district of Tandridge. The company began in August 2017 when South African-born Craig Vroom started brewing one cask at a time in the idyllic setting of a 16th century listed farmhouse on the Titsey Estate, at the highest point on the North Downs Way National Trail atop the chalk ridge just south of London. The operation was upgraded in 2019 to an 8 hl kit in a neighbouring unit, and again in June 2023 to a new brewhouse and taproom nearby at Clarkes Lane Farm, Tatsfield TN16 2JU, also on the North Downs Way.
With the former Cronx site back in action, Mark began cuckoo brewing Cronx beers there on his own former kit.
Beers are mainly in keg, with some available in cask, can, bottle, minikeg and bag-in-box,.
Updated 1 September 2025.
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