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Foots Cray is, ecclesiastically, in the diocese of Canterbury, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury and in the deanery of Dartford.  The church is named All Saints with registers commencing 1559.

Foots Cray, a village and a parish in Bromley district, Kent.  The village stands on the rivulet Cray, 2-1/4 miles north of St. Mary Cray rail station, and 5-1/2 miles east-north-east of Bromley;  and has a post office under London, S.E..  The parish comprises 798 acres.  Real property in 1860, £3,608.  Population in 1861, 286.  Houses, 57.  The property is divided among a few.

The manor belonged, at the Conquest, to Godwin Fot or Foot, and in the time of Edward III, to Sir Simon de Vaughan.  Foots Cray Place is an edifice of 1752, after the model of Palladio’s villa.  Ursula Lodge, 1 mile northwest of the village, is a recent building, founded by H. Berens, Esq., for six maiden ladies.  There are several paper mills.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury.  Value, £251 with a habitable glebe house.  Patron, the Lord Chancellor.  The church is partly transition Norman, partly rude early decorated English;  and has effigies of Sir Simon de Vaughan and his lady.

A school has £10 from endowment. ^1
1John Marius Wilson, comp. The Imperial Gazatteer of England and Wales.  (London, England:  A. Fullerton & Co., 1870).

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• Pigot's Directory of Kent, 1824
• Illustrated Guide to the London and Dover Railway, 1846
• History, Gazetteer & Directory of Kent, Vol. II, 1847
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 1: Counties & Localities]
• Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent ... , 1855. [Part 2: Court & Trade Directories]
• Melville & Co.'s Directory of Kent, 1858
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1882
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 1. Kent: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, Surrey & Sussex, 1891. [Part 2. Kent: Court & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1903. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 1: County & Localities]
• Kelly's Directory of Kent, 1913. [Part 2: Private Resident & Trade Directories]

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