A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CRAY (Foots), a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent. The village stands on the rivulet Cray, 2¼ miles N of St. Mary Cray r. station, and 5½ ENE of Bromley; and has a post office under London, S. E. The parish comprises 798 acres. Real property, £3, 608. Pop., 286. Houses, 57. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged, at the Conquest, to Godwin Fot or Foot, and in the time of Edward III., to Sir Simon de Vaughan. Foots-Cray Place is an edifice of 1752, after the model of Palladio's villa. Ursula Lodge, 1 mile NW of the village, is a recent building, founded by H. Berens, Esq., for six maiden ladies. There are several paper mills. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury. Value, £251.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is partly transition Norman, partly rude early decorated English; and has effigies of Sir Simon de Vaughan and his lady. A school has £10 from endowment.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
| Linked entities: | |
|---|---|
| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Sidcup AP/CP Bromley RegD/PLU Kent AncC |
| Place names: | CRAY | CRAY FOOTS | FOOTS CRAY |
| Place: | Foots Cray |
Go to the linked place page for a location map, and for access to other historical writing about the place. Pages for linked administrative units may contain historical statistics and information on boundaries.