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Foots Cray

Foots Cray is an area of South East London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley.

Foots Cray
Foots Cray · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Foots Cray is an area of South East London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. Prior to 1965 it was in the historic county of Kent. It is located south-east of Sidcup, north of Orpington and north west of Swanley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Foots Cray

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Foots Cray Place

    Foots Cray Place was one of the four country houses built in England in the 18th century to a design inspired by Palladio's Villa Capra near Vicenza. Built in 1754 near Sidcup, Kent, Foots Cray Place was demolished in 1950 after a fire in 1949.

    1.3 km · country house in London Borough of Bexley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bird College

    BIRD Conservatoire is an independent performing arts college, located in Sidcup, South East London, in the London Borough of Bexley. The college was founded as a dance school by Doreen Bird in 1946 and now provides specialist vocational training in dance and musical theatre, at further and higher education level.

    1.5 km · performing arts college in London, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lamorbey Park

    Lamorbey Park is a 57-hectare park in Lamorbey, in the London Borough of Bexley, set around a Grade II listed mansion, Lamorbey House. The original 17th century estate consisted of 119 hectares, but over time sections of the estate have been separated for other uses, including two secondary schools, Rose Bruford College, and Sidcup Golf Club.

    2.5 km · house in Bexley, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Foots Cray Meadows

    Foots Cray Meadows is an area of parkland and woodland 97 hectares in size, within the London Borough of Bexley, England. It borders the suburbs of Albany Park, Sidcup, Foots Cray, North Cray and Ruxley.

    1.4 km · park in borough of Bexley, London · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Botolph's Church, Ruxley

    St Botolph's Church is a church building in Ruxley, in the London Borough of Bromley, southeast London, England. It was constructed in the thirteenth century and dedicated to Botwulf of Thorney.

    1.4 km · church in London Borough of Bromley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens

    Kemnal Park Cemetery & Memorial Gardens is a privately owned cemetery in London that was opened in October 2013 by the Mayor of Bromley, Cllr Ernest Noad. It comprises 55 acres in total and in addition to the available 30,000 burial plots, features a garden of remembrance, a non-denominational chapel and car parking.

    2.5 km · burial ground in London · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's, Chislehurst

    St Mary's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Chislehurst, the Borough of Bromley, London. It was built from 1853 to 1854, and was designed by William Wardell.

    3.1 km · Catholic church building in Bromley, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Frognal House

    Frognal House is a Jacobean mansion in London, England, standing on the border of Sidcup in the London Borough of Bexley, and Chislehurst, in the London Borough of Bromley. It was built in the early 16th century.

    700 m · mansion in London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Ruxley Gravel Pits

    Ruxley Gravel Pits is an 18.7-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ruxley, Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, and originally dug between 1929 and 1951. It is also a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation.

    700 m · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ruxley, Orpington · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Chislehurst Common

    Chislehurst Common is an open space in Chislehurst in the London Borough of Bromley in south-east London. It is jointly managed with St Paul's Cray Common.

    3.4 km · park in Chislehurst, London, UK · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Foots Cray

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 36 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 40 km · London Stansted (STN), 53 km
Stations
Bexley railway station, 3.5 km · Sidcup railway station, 2.1 km · Albany Park railway station, 2.3 km · St Mary Cray railway station, 2.5 km · New Eltham railway station, 3.8 km
  • London → Foots Cray
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £2–3
  • London, Essex → Foots Cray
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 9m · £2–3
  • Luton, Luton → Foots Cray
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Foots Cray

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Foots Cray. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextPopularly known as the Garden of England due to its green landscape, the county includes a number of attractions that could be included on day trips outside of the capital.
  • Go nextFrom the Greenwich Peninsula, take the IFS Cloud Cable Car (formerly Emirates Air Line) – the UK's first urban cable car.

From Wikivoyage: London/Greenwich, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    128 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    390 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    578 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    614 km

If you know how people move in Foots Cray – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Foots Cray

Foots Cray is 20 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chislehurstdistrict in South East London, England2.5 km
  • Bexleyarea of southeast London, England, United Kingdom3.6 km
  • Sidcupsuburban district of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley1.4 km
  • St Mary Craydistrict of the London Borough of Bromley2.7 km
  • Albany Parkarea in the London Borough of Bexley, England, UK1.4 km
  • North Crayarea of south-east London, in the London Borough of Bexley1.6 km