Bexleyheath
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| Ordnance Survey | |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference: | Maps for TQ485755 |
| Administration | |
| London borough: | Bexley |
| Area: | Greater London |
| Region: | London |
| Nation: | England |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Greater London |
| Traditional county: | Kent |
| Police force: | Metropolitan Police |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | BEXLEYHEATH |
| Postcode: | DA6, DA7 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | Bexleyheath and Crayford |
| London Assembly: | Bexley and Bromley |
| European Parliament: | London |
Bexleyheath is a place in the London Borough of Bexley. It formerly bore the name of "Bexley New Town".
The modern town area of today offers a Bingo hall, cinema, hotel, magistrates' court, reference library, six-a-side football centre and ten-pin bowling alley among the more usual retail outlets. The town has a railway station on the line between Blackheath and Dartford.
In 1859 Architect Philip Webb designed a house, 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. The Red House forms an early essay in a romantically-massed, non-historical brick-and-tiling domestic vernacular style. The National Trust acquired it in 2003.
Alfred Bean, railway engineer and one-time owner of Danson House, furthered the development of Bexleyheath as a London suburb by championing the Bexleyheath Line to support the growth of the estates around Danson Park.