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London Borough of Bexley

The London Borough of Bexley is a London borough in south-east London, forming part of Outer London.

London Borough of Bexley
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The place

The London Borough of Bexley is a London borough in south-east London, forming part of Outer London. It has a population of 248,287. The main settlements are Sidcup, Erith, Bexleyheath, Belvedere, Crayford, Welling and Old Bexley. The London Borough of Bexley is within the Thames Gateway, an area designated as a national priority for urban regeneration. The local authority is Bexley London Borough Council.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around London Borough of Bexley

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
    Danson Park

    Danson Park is a public park in the London Borough of Bexley, South East London, located between Welling and Bexleyheath. At 75 hectares, it is the second largest public park in the borough, and the most used by the community.

    1.3 km · park in the London Borough of Bexley, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Broadway Shopping Centre, Bexleyheath

    Broadway Shopping Centre is the principal covered shopping centre in the town centre of Bexleyheath and is the largest single covered shopping facility in the London Borough of Bexley.

    1.1 km · shopping mall in Greater London · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Woolwich cemetery

    Woolwich Cemetery is a cemetery in southeast London, situated south-east of Woolwich, in Kings Highway, Plumstead, on land that was formerly part of Plumstead Common. The first cemetery, which is sometimes referred to as the Woolwich Old Cemetery, was opened in 1856 by the Woolwich Burial Board and the 12-acre site was almost full within 30 years; in 1885, a new cemetery was established on adjacent land to the east.

    3.9 km · cemetery in London · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hall Place and Gardens

    Hall Place is a historic building in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. The house was extended in 1649 by Sir Robert Austen, a merchant from Tenterden in Kent.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed house and museum in Bexley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    2.7 km · country house in London Borough of Bexley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    3.1 km · performing arts college in London, England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bexley Civic Offices

    The Bexley Civic Offices is a municipal facility in Watling Street, Bexleyheath, London. It is the headquarters of the Bexley London Borough Council.

    1.5 km · municipal building in London, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Plumstead Cemetery

    Plumstead Cemetery is a cemetery in Plumstead, southeast London. It is situated south-east of Woolwich, to the north of Wickham Lane, west of Lodge Hill, and south of Bostall Wood.

    3.2 km · burial ground in southeast London, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Danson House

    Danson House is a Palladian mansion and a Grade I listed building at the centre of Danson Park, in Welling in the London Borough of Bexley, south-east London.

    1.3 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in London Borough of Bexley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2.2 km · house in Bexley, London, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to London Borough of Bexley

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 40 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 41 km · London Stansted (STN), 49 km
Stations
Bexleyheath railway station, 1.5 km · Bexley railway station, 1.5 km · Welling railway station, 2.7 km · Falconwood railway station, 3.8 km · Sidcup railway station, 2.7 km
  • London → London Borough of Bexley
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2.5–3
  • London, Essex → London Borough of Bexley
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → London Borough of Bexley
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

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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 London Borough of Bexley. 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.

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Around it

Next door to London Borough of Bexley

London Borough of Bexley is 19 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bexleyheathtown in south east London, England, United Kingdom, within the London Borough of Bexley1.1 km
  • Erithdistrict of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley3.8 km
  • Bexleyarea of southeast London, England, United Kingdom1.5 km
  • Sidcupsuburban district of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley3.4 km
  • Crayfordtown in south-east London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley3.3 km
  • Wellingdistrict in the London Borough of Bexley, South East London1.9 km