St Paul's Cray
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Coordinates: 51°23′59″N 0°06′24″E / 51.3998°N 0.1067°E
| St Paul's Cray | |
 St Paul's Cray
St Paul's Cray shown within Greater London |
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| OS grid reference | TQ466688 |
|---|---|
| London borough | Bromley |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ORPINGTON |
| Postcode district | BR5 |
| Dialling code | 01689 |
| 020 | |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | Orpington |
| London Assembly | Bexley and Bromley |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
St Paul's Cray lies on the River Cray and is part of the London Borough of Bromley. St Paul's Cray was once a separate village, but like its sister St Mary Cray has been incorporated in to Orpington. Hoblingwell Wood lies in the district as well as entrances and portions of Scadbury Park nature reserve.
A dominant feature of St Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray are the industrial estates on Cray Avenue/Sevenoaks Way, home to retail outlets such as PC World, Comet, Land of Leather, Homebase, JJB Sports, MFI, Currys, Carpet Right and Arco. These retailers list their stores as Orpington branches. The art deco tower of the Allied Bakery (which was designed by Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners), formerly Tip Top Bakeries, is a local landmark. The local football team, Cray Wanderers F.C., is one of the oldest football clubs in the world.[1] Cray Wanderers are set to return to the area by 2014, at Sandy Lane.
Like its sister St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray is home to a large ex-traveller community as well as many descendents of Irish travellers who moved south from Bermondsey after the docks shut.It is home to a large working class population.
[edit] History
The area was known in the 16th century as Paul Crey. William Camden born in 1551 writes in a 1610 travel guide in a section on Kent: "Here the riverlet Crey, anciently called Crecan , intermingleth it selfe with Darent, ? when in his short course he hath imparted his name to five townlets which hee watereth,as Saint Marie Crey, Pauls Crey, Votes-Crey, North Crey,? and Crey-ford in former ages Crecanford, where Hengest the Saxon, the eighth yeare after his arrivall, joyned battaile with the Britans, and after hee had slaine their captaines brought them under with so great a slaughter that afterwards hee never stood in feare of them, but established his kingdome quietly in Kent." [2]
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[edit] References
- ^ http://www.craywanderersjfc.co.uk/club/History
- ^ Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland by William Camden, 1610 http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/text/chap_page.jsp?t_id=Camden&c_id=12&p_id=3354#pn_28
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