The DA6 postcode area which is south Bexleyheath has a less homogeneous feel and features Danson House and the Red House.

Bexleyheath has a theatre ( the Edward Alderton ), Cineworld cinema, hotel, reference library, five-a-side football centre, bingo hall and ten-pin bowling alley ( Ten Pin ).

The Bexleyheath Line has stations at Falconwood, ( of which is the nearest to central London ) Welling, Bexleyheath and Barnehurst ; whilst the most southerly of the three lines, the Dartford Loop Line, serves Sidcup, Albany Park, Bexley and Crayford.

The possibility of opening platforms on this line with direct access to Victoria Station and the Bexleyheath Line to Dartford has often been suggested but is currently low on TfL's priorities.

Since the closure of Dartford's major employers: Seagers ' Engineering Works, J & E Hall International, Vickers, the reduction and subsequent closure of Burroughs Wellcome ( now GlaxoSmithKline ), and the redevelopment of nearby Bexleyheath as a shopping town in the 1970s ( and the more recent development of the Bluewater Shopping Centre ), Dartford has lost a significant number of its rising Generation X demographic to more economically viable jobs, towns and cities.

Haye lives in Bexleyheath ; he is married and has a son called Cassius, named after Cassius Clay.

Bexley Heritage Trust, a local heritage charity, has been involved in partnership with English Heritage since 2000 and has completed the interior furnishing and fitting-out of the house prior to reopening by HM The Queen in Spring 2005, and it now manages the building as a publicly accessible venue and visitor attraction ( the Trust is also responsible for Hall Place, east of Bexleyheath ).

Belvedere has always been classed as a satellite garage from an engineering point of view with very little routine maintenance ever taking place there, however limited engineering facilities existed at Belvedere up until its parent garage changing to Bexleyheath.

He contested the newly drawn Bexleyheath and Crayford seat but lost to Labour's Nigel Beard by 3, 415 votes.

Bexleyheath was originally part of Kent until the expansion of the London County Council in the 1960s.

Other developments included the building of " Bexleyheath Square " in the early 2000s as an extension to the then " Broadway ", providing more retail units.

For example, in The Mall Bexleyheath, the firm was able to introduce Wallis to the retail portfolio without having to lease a separate new store to do so, and was also able to close the existing Evans store and relocate its operations into BHS.

Bexleyheath's parish church, Christ Church, dates from 1841 ; and the parish of Bexleyheath from 1866 ; the building of the current church finished in 1877.

Evening and Sundays trains operate to / from instead of Cannon Street, with Bexleyheath Line services extended to and Sidcup Line services extended to.

It does, however, have regular bus services operating from the town centre also serving urban hotspots in and around the borough including Orpington, Lewisham, Penge, Bexleyheath and Croydon.

He was Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bexleyheath and Crayford in London from 1997 to 2005.

Stoate was a junior hospital doctor from 1977 – 81, then a general practitioner in Bexleyheath from 1982, and a GP tutor at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup from 1989.

* Lewisham, where the Bexleyheath and North Kent lines divide from the South Eastern Main Line and Hayes Line.

In 1899, he was sent to London to serve a five-year apprenticeship under the direction of the London architect William A. Pite and as a result, the Muff family moved from Yorkshire to the Red House, Bexleyheath, London which was originally designed by Philip Webb for William Morris.

The Woolwich brand-name was retained after the acquisition, and the Woolwich head office remained in Bexleyheath, south-east London, five miles from the original office in Woolwich.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that part of Danson Park ward be transferred from Old Bexley and Sidcup to the constituency of Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Category: People from Bexleyheath

Falconwood railway station is situated in the suburb of Falconwood, London Borough of Bexley, and is served by the Bexleyheath Line: it is from Charing Cross.

Barnehurst railway station serves Barnehurst, London Borough of Bexley: it is from Charing Cross on the Bexleyheath Line.

The Bexleyheath Line runs for 8 miles ( 13 km ) from Blackheath to Dartford in Kent operating between the North Kent Line just to the east of Blackheath station and to the same line south of Slade Green in Dartford.

Welling railway station is situated in Welling, part of the London Borough of Bexley, and is served by the Bexleyheath Line, from Charing Cross.

Peak hour frequencies vary, with services from the Bexleyheath & Dartford loop lines also running to & from stations to Gillingham

No station was built at Hither Green where the line deviated from the main line until after the opening of the third North Kent route, the Bexleyheath Line in 1895.

It is separated from North Bexleyheath by the A220, Erith Road.

* David Evennett, Conservative MP since 2005 for Bexleyheath and Crayford and from 1983-97 for Erith and Crayford

It was created in 1997 from parts of the former seats of Bexleyheath and Erith & Crayford.

The modern town area is dominated by a covered shopping centre opened in 1984 ( see Broadway Shopping Centre, Bexleyheath ), and an Asda supermarket ( opened 1988 ), similar to facilities in other suburban towns and post-war ' New Towns '.

Insofar as central government is concerned, the borough is divided among the constituencies of Old Bexley and Sidcup ; Erith and Thamesmead ( shared with the Royal Borough of Greenwich ); and Bexleyheath and Crayford.

Bexleyheath and Crayford is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

He is particularly noted as the designer of Red House at Bexleyheath, southeast London in 1859 for William Morris, and — towards the end of his career — the house Standen ( near East Grinstead in West Sussex ).

The eastern part of Erith is within the Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency.

Welling is also served by a night bus route, the London Buses route N89, which starts at Erith, running via Slade Green, Barnehurst, Bexleyheath, Welling and Lewisham, towards Trafalgar Square.

Among the former are Erith, in the 17th century a port on the Thames, and an industrial town in the later 19th century ; Bexleyheath, created at the same time on the London to Dover road.

* 229 to Erith, Northumberland Heath, Bexleyheath, Bexley and Sidcup.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that part of Danson Park ward be transferred to Bexleyheath and Crayford from the constituency of Old Bexley and Sidcup ; that part of Colyers ward be transferred from Erith and Thamesmead ; and that parts of Lesnes Abbey ward, Belvedere ward, Northumberland Heath ward and Erith ward be transferred to Bexleyheath and Crayford from Erith and Thamesmead.

Following their review of parliamentary representation in South London, and as a consequence of changes to ward boundaries, the Boundary Commission for England recommended that parts of Glyndon ward and Colyers ward be transferred from Erith and Thamesmead to the constituencies of Greenwich and Woolwich and Bexleyheath and Crayford respectively ; that part of Plumstead ward be transferred to Erith and Thamesmead from Eltham ; and that parts of Lesnes Abbey ward, Nothumberland Heath ward and Erith ward be transferred to Erith and Thamesmead from Bexleyheath and Crayford.

* Bexley: Bexley, Bexleyheath, Blackfen, Bostall Park, Crayford, Erith, Sidcup, Welling.

The nearest stations are at Slade Green and Erith on the Woolwich line and Barnehurst on the Bexleyheath line.