Crayford

Crayford is a town and constituent ward situated in south-east London, England inside the London Borough of Bexley. It lies east of Bexleyheath and north west of Dartford. Crayford is in the noteworthy district of Kent. The settlement created around a portage over the stream Cray, that is never again utilized. An Iron Age settlement existed in the region of the present St Paulinus Church between the Julian and Claudian attacks of Britain, from around 30 BC to AD 40.

Roman remains have been found and Crayford is one of a few spots proposed as the site of Noviomagus, a place made reference to in the Antonine Itinerary as being on what might as well be called the later Watling Street. Crayford is additionally conceivable as the site of the bleeding skirmish of Crecganford "Creeksford" in 457.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle composed around 400 years after the fact portrays how Hengist and Aesc vanquished the "Brettas" at the site. Crayford is made reference to in the Domesday Book, which was arranged only preceding 1086, as a settlement inside the Hundred of Litlelee with a congregation, three factories, and a generally extensive populace of 27 consistent householders villeins and 2 smallholders. Its overlord was not a private individual or the ruler but rather Christ Church, Canterbury.