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Crayford is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Dartford.  The church is named for St. Paulinus with registers commencing 1558.

Crayford, a village and a parish in Dartford district, Kent.  The village stands on the rivulet Cray, near the Lee and Dartford railway, 1-1/2 mile west-by-north of Dartford;  and has a post office under London SE., and a rail station.  It was once a market town;  and it still has a fair on 8 September.  It is the Creccanford of the Saxon Chronicle;  and was the scene of the battle, in 457, between Hengist and Vortigern.  The parish includes also the hamlets of Northend and Slade Green.  Acres, 2,474;  of which 90 are water.  Real property in 1860, £13,738.  Population in 1861, 3,103.  Houses, 598.  The property is subdivided.

The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the see of Canterbury.  May Place, a building partly of the time of James I, now a farm house, was the seat of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel.  Numerous caverns, of great depth, with narrow mouths, but ample vaulted interior, exist in chalk rocks of this parish and the neighbouring heaths;  and are thought by many persons to have been formed by the ancient Britons for retreat in the time of war.  Some large establishments for silk and calico printing and some large saw mills, are on the rivulet near the village.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £869 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, T. Austen, Esq..  The church is ancient;  was recently restored;  and has an altar piece, given by Sir Cloudesley Shovel.

There are chapels for Baptists and Roman Catholics, and a national school.

Northend is a hamlet in Crayford parish, Kent;  1/2 mile south of Erith.  Population in 1861, 191.

Slade Green is a hamlet in Crayford parish, Kent;  2 miles north-north-west of Dartford.^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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