Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Foots Cray. You may be able to find further references to Foots Cray in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Cray, Foots parish Bartholomew
Foots Cray parish Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Foots Cray within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
John Byng A Tour into Kent, 1790 2
William Camden Kent 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Sidcup 0 2
Ruxley 0 3
St Pauls Cray 1 3
North Cray 2 2
Lamorbey 0 3
Halfway Street 0 2
Chislehurst 0 2
St Mary Cray 1 3
Bexley 18 2
Orpington 0 2
Bexleyheath 0 2
Welling 0 2
Swanley 0 2
Crockenhill 0 2
Wilmington 1 2
Bickley 0 2
Crayford 2 2
Eltham 15 2
Mottingham 0 2