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Crayford in Kent County England History and GeographyCRAYFORD, a parish in the hundred of LESSNESS, lathe of SUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 13 miles (E. by S.) from London, containing 1866 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £35. 13. 4. Thomas Austen, Esq. was patron in 1813. The church, dedicated to St. Paulinus, is a spacious modern structure, adorned with an elegant altar-piece; it stands on an eminence at the upper end of the village, which consists of an irregular street, branching off to the left of the road from London to Dartford. Crayford is so called from Creccanford, an ancient ford on the river Creccan, now Cray, which here flows in two streams, having upon its banks several extensive establishments for printing calicoe, and a large mill for making iron hoops. One of the archbishops of Canterbury, who formerly had possessions here, procured a weekly market on Tuesday, and a fair on our Lady's Nativity; the market has long been disused, but an annual fair is still held on the 8th of September. In the immediate vicinity of Crayford, some antiquaries have placed the Roman station Noviomagus, near which a great battle was fought in 457, between Hengist the Saxon, and the British king Vortimer, which ended in the secure establishment of the kingdom of Kent under the rule of the former. In this parish are many ancient caves, of which some are from fifteen to twenty fathoms deep, increasing in circumference from the mouth downwards, and containing several large apartments, supported by pillars of chalk: it is conjectured that they were used as places of security for the wives, children, and moveable goods of the Saxons, during their wars with the Britons. The manor-house, which was built and occupied by Sir Cloudesley Shovel, is moated, and is now occupied by a farmer. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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