Foots Cray Meadows

Foots Cray Meadows is a place of parkland and forest 97 hectares in length, inside the London Borough of Bexley, England. It borders the suburbs of Albany Park, Sidcup, Foots Cray, North Cray and Ruxley. The River Cray runs via it in a north-easterly direction. The London Loop, a public recreational walking path round London, also referred to as the "M25 for walkers", runs through the meadows parallel to the river from Sidcup Place, just south of the meadows. Two splendid bridges cross the River Cray in the meadows: Five Arches bridge and the smaller Penny Farthing Bridge.

The Meadows are a Local Nature Reserve and a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. They have also obtained a Green Flag Award. There is access from Rectory Lane, among different locations. Adjacent to the meadows is an area known regionally as the "desert" and the ruins of a destroyed boules alley. The location changed into originally a part of the Footscray Place estate, and all through the 18th century the Five Arches bridge changed into built. At the equal time, an almshouse turned into built adjacent to the woods, which, as of 2008, become being excavated by means of archaeologists belonging to Bexley Archaeological Group.