River Cray
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CrayfordCrayford is a town and electoral ward in the London Borough of Bexley that was an important bridging point in Roman times across the River Cray, a tributary of the River Darent, which is itself a tributary of the River Thames. An Iron Age... In this article: London Bridge, Transport for London, Vickers Company, Augustus Applegath, and River Cray |
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Wikipedia | October 22, 2009
River Shuttle
The River Shuttle is a small tributary of the River Cray in London, United Kingdom. The river rises at two or more springs between Avery Hill and Eltham in the London Borough of Greenwich at the junction of the permeable Blackheath Beds...
In this article: River Shuttle, London, Wyncham Stream, Dover, and Hall Place
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St Mary Cray
St Mary Cray lies on the River Cray and is part of the London Borough of Bromley. St Mary Cray, like St Paul's Cray, has been somewhat overshadowed by the growth of nearby Orpington, which now provides local communities with their main...
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Bexley
Bexley is an area of South East London in the London Borough of Bexley, London, England. It is located on the banks of the River Cray south of the Roman Road, Watling Street. There are two parts to the town - Old Bexley, still with the...
In this article: St. Mary's Church, London, Hall Place, Anglican, Local Government Act 1894, and Diocese of Rochester
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Hall Place
...17th-century brick half Hall Place is a former stately home, today a Grade 1 listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, beside the River Cray on the outskirts of Crayford, west of Bexleyheath and north-east of Old Bexley. It is in...
In this article: Hall Place, Hellfire Club, World War II, and King George VI
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North Cray
...is a place in the London Borough of Bexley, southeast London , England, 20 km (12.5 miles) east southeast of Charing Cross. It lays on the River Cray and is in the Cray Meadows electoral ward which also includes Foots Cray. The post town for...
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Foots Cray
...England, United Kingdom. It took its name from Godwin Fot, a local Saxon landowner recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and from the River Cray that passes through the village. It lay on the old Maidstone Road (now bypassed by the A20...
In this article: Cray, London, First World War, Domesday Book, and Henry Hakewill
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Charles Cowan
In May 1819, he was sent to learn the papermaking trade at St Mary Cray, Kent, where he worked at either Lay's or Hall's mill on the River Cray. In the general election of June 1847 , he ran as a Radical free-trade candidate in Edinburgh ,...
In this article: Charles Cowan, Lay's, and Edinburgh
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River Cray
Orpington pond is the source of the River Cray The River Cray is a tributary of the River Darent in southern England. It rises in Priory Gardens in Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley, where rainwater permeates the chalk bedrock...
In this article: Domesday, River Darent, and River Thames
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Foots Cray Meadows
...England, United Kingdom. It borders the suburbs of Albany Park, Sidcup, Foots Cray, and North Cray and has the River Cray running through it. The London Loop, a famous public recreational walking path also known as the "M25 for walkers", runs...
In this article: Cray, Dog, England, and United Kingdom
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Times Online | May 28, 2009
Sex, drugs and . . . fishing tackle
...have hooked up to create a fishing website. An industry insider talks to its founders about their most unlikely project yet 1/ The River Cray read by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Produced by Chris Watson for caughtbytheriver.net 2/ Jack Frost...
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The River Cray is a tributary of the River Darent in southern England. It rises in Priory Gardens in Orpington in the London Borough of Bromley, where rainwater permeates the chalk bedrock and forms a pond at the boundary between the chalk and impermeable clay. It then flows northwards past the industrial and residential area of St Mary Cray, through St Paul's Cray where there was once a paper mill, through Foots Cray, and enters the parkland of Foots Cray Meadows. Here it flows under the Five Arches bridge (which was built in 1781 as part of the designs for Foots Cray Meadows drawn up by Capability Brown) and past Loring Hall (c.1760), once the home of Lord Castlereagh, who committed suicide there in 1822. It continues northwards through North Cray and Bexley, where there is a restored Gothic cold plunge bath house, built around 1766 as part of Vale Mascal Estate. It is then joined by the River Shuttle and then continues through the parkland of Hall Place, which was built for John Champneys in 1540. It then turns east through Crayford and Barnes Cray before joining the Darent, which flows northwards into the River Thames between Crayford Marshes and Dartford Marshes. The villages through which it flows are collectively known as The Crays.
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