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The town includes a small parade of shops, as well as part of the industrial estate on Cray Avenue that connects to its sister [[St Mary Cray]]. The former Broomwood pub is now a [[McDonald's]] and lies on the main road. Like St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray is home to a large ex-traveller community as well as many descendants of Irish travellers who moved south from [[Bermondsey]] after the docks shut |
The town includes a small parade of shops at Cotmandene Crescent and at Chipperfield Road, as well as part of the industrial estate on Cray Avenue that connects to its sister [[St Mary Cray]]. The former Broomwood pub is now a [[McDonald's]] and lies on the main road. Like St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray is home to a large ex-traveller community as well as many descendants of Irish travellers who moved south from [[Bermondsey]] after the docks shut. |
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St Paul's Cray is an area of South East London, England and is a part of the London Borough of Bromley. It borders the London Borough of Bexley, and lies north of Orpington and south of Sidcup.
The Area
The town includes a small parade of shops at Cotmandene Crescent and at Chipperfield Road, as well as part of the industrial estate on Cray Avenue that connects to its sister St Mary Cray. The former Broomwood pub is now a McDonald's and lies on the main road. Like St Mary Cray, St Paul's Cray is home to a large ex-traveller community as well as many descendants of Irish travellers who moved south from Bermondsey after the docks shut.
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." [1]
Nearby Places
Transport
Buses
St Paul's Cray is served by several Transport for London bus services.
- 51 - Woolwich and Orpington Station
- B14 - Bexleyheath Shopping Centre and Orpington Station
- R1 - St Paul's Cray and Green Street Green
- R11 - Sidcup Queen Mary's Hospital and Green Street Green
Railway
The closest railway station to the settlement is St Mary Cray station, which has regular fast services to London Victoria via Bromley South, stopping services to Kentish Town via Catford, as well as Kent bound services to Sevenoaks, Gillingham and Ashford International.
External links
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References
- ^ 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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