Bexleyheath
Administration
Borough:	Bexley
County:	Greater London
Region:	Greater London
Nation:	England
Other
Ceremonial County:	Greater London
Traditional County:	Kent
Postal County:	Kent

Bexleyheath is a place in the London Borough of Bexley. It was originally called Bexley New Town.

The modern town area today offers a bingo hall, cinema, hotel, magistrates court, reference library, six-a-side football centre and ten-pin bowling alley amongst the more usual retail outlets. Many of those are listed on the website http://www.bexleyheath.towntalk.co.uk . The town has a railway station on the line between Blackheath and Dartford.

In 1859 Philip Webb designed a house, The Red House, for the artist, reforming designer and socialist William Morris on the western edge of the heath, before it became largely developed as a London suburb. It is an early essay in a romantically massed, non-historical brick-and-tiling domestic vernacular style. It was recently bought by the National Trust, so opportunities for public visits are likely to increase.

External link

• The Red House, brief details. (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The_Red_House.html)

Nearest places:

• Welling
• Crayford
• Sidcup
• Erith

Nearest railway stations:

• Albany Park railway station
• Barnehurst railway station
• Bexley railway station
• Bexleyheath railway station