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North Cray

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

North Cray
North Cray · Wikimedia Commons
The place

North Cray is an area in South East London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. It is located east of Sidcup and south of Bexleyheath and is 12.6 miles (20.3 km) south-east of Charing Cross, the traditional centre of London in the Metropolitan Green Belt.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around North 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
    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.

    3.8 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.

    3.6 km · shopping mall in Greater London · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Dartford Heath

    Dartford Heath Common is an area of open heathland situated to the south-west of Dartford, Kent, England, that covers around 314 acres of open space. Dartford Heath is classified as lowland heath and is one of only two substantial heathland blocks remaining in Kent.

    4 km · park in the United Kingdom · 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.

    3.1 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.

    1.1 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.

    2.1 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.

    3.7 km · municipal building in London, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    3.5 km · burial ground in London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    2.2 km · mansion in London · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    2 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Ruxley, Orpington · 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 North Cray

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 38 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 42 km · London Stansted (STN), 52 km
Stations
Bexley railway station, 2 km · St Mary Cray railway station, 3.9 km · Sidcup railway station, 2.4 km · Albany Park railway station, 1.4 km
  • London → North Cray
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £2.5–3
  • London, Essex → North Cray
    20 km · quickest by road, 1h 12m · £2.5–3
  • Luton, Luton → North Cray
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for North 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 North 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

    130 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    335 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    388 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 North Cray – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to North Cray

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

  • London Borough of Bexleyborough in the London Region in England3.7 km
  • Bexleyheathtown in south east London, England, United Kingdom, within the London Borough of Bexley3.9 km
  • Bexleyarea of southeast London, England, United Kingdom2.1 km
  • Sidcupsuburban district of south-east London, England, primarily in the London Borough of Bexley2.3 km
  • Wilmingtonvillage and civil parish in Kent, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hextablevillage in Kent, England, UK3.5 km