Until the early 19th century, Bexley Heath comprised an area of scrub-land with few buildings, although Bexley Heath windmill stood at the corner of what is today Erith Road and Mayplace Road.

Chislehurst is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Crystal Palace, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

The park is one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk, linking to places such as Chislehurst, Erith, the Thames Barrier and Thamesmead.

Erith is a district of southeast London on the River Thames.

Erith is geographically an outer lying area of London, although it is can be seen as having many of the characteristics of the Inner city, namely most residences consisting largely of flats and council blocks, with fewer houses, and shops and other commercial properties interspersed between.

The earliest reference to the area is in a Latin charter of 695 recording a grant by the Bishop of the East Saxons of certain lands at Erith.

After the Norman Conquest in 1066, Erith passed into the possession of Bishop Odo and is mentioned in the Domesday Survey.

The building also housed the Erith Museum which is currently closed

It is expected that the Erith Western Gateway, that will include a significant number of new riverside flats, will continue to rejuvenate the area which suffered from the blight of post World War Two rebuilding.

The area under consideration in the Erith Western Gateway is a large, underused area of the town centre.

A new swimming pool was recently built adjoining the sports centre and the David Ives Stadium, which is home to Bexley Athletic Club and Erith Town F. C.

The Erith Playhouse Theatre is the largest in Bexley.

Erith Rowing Club is a successful and friendly club located in former police premises on the waterfront, accessed from Erith High Street.

Downstream, Erith Yacht Club is very active in both competitive and social sailing, based on the edge of Crayford Marshes with consent for a new clubhouse.

Erith is the starting point for the LOOP ( London Outer Orbital Path ) and one of the starting points for the Green Chain Walk.

The largest part of Erith is in the Erith ward of the London Borough of Bexley.

The eastern part of Erith is in North End ward and the southern part in Colyers ward.

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

Erith is in the Bexley and Bromley London Assembly constituency and is represented on the London Assembly by James Cleverly ( Conservative ).

Erith is in Travelcard Zone 6.

From 1881 Erith was home to a large cable works founded by William Callender.

The family moved home many times during Pertwee's childhood and he lived in Hereford, Glasbury, Colnbrook, Newbury, Erith, Belvedere, Blackheath, Storrington, Westcliff-on-Sea, Wilmington and Worthing.

Some fairly new riverside apartment blocks, just east of Erith town centre and facing the pier

The armored cables were manufactured in southeast London at a factory in Erith, Kent, owned by Submarine Cables Ltd. ( owned jointly by Siemens Brothers & Company, Ltd, and The Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company, Ltd ).

The world amateur premiere was performed at the Erith Playhouse in Erith, Kent, in June 1977, and was attended by members of the London production team.

* Erith ( Southeast London )

* Erith and Thamesmead ( shared with the London Borough of Bexley )

On its way from Erith to Old Bexley, the " London LOOP " walk follows the River Cray across the Crayford Marshes and through the town centre.

The 428 contracted by Transport for London runs between Erith and Bluewater Shopping Centre.

Erith ward ( green ) within the London Borough of Bexley ( yellow )

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the Erith Municipal Borough was abolished and its area transferred to Greater London to form part of the present-day London Borough of Bexley.

The London Borough of Bexley announced the selection of Crest Nicholson / Orbit South to take forward the Erith Western Gateway regeneration scheme.

In the Second World War, Erith found itself in the thick of the conflict, being directly on the German bombing routes from Europe to London, and also because of the nearby armament factories.

In 2007, the Tour de France passed through Erith during the London leg of the Tour.

: For education in Erith see the main London Borough of Bexley article

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.

The London Borough of Bexley was formed in 1965, under the London Government Act 1963 from the Municipal Boroughs of Bexley and Erith ; Crayford Urban District: and part of Chislehurst and Sidcup Urban District.

In 1797 Edward Hasted described Erith as ' consisting of one small street of houses, which leads to the water side ', and mentions two annual fairs, on Ascension Day and Michaelmas Day.

In 1996, the two sites of Erith School, the East and West buildings, merged onto one site on Avenue Road.

The regeneration of the area falls within the remit of the Thames Gateway project, with Erith being a key focus for Bexley Council as its only population centre on the River Thames.

The initial broadcasts of pirate radio station West and North Kent Radio ( WNKR ) took place at Norvic House, Larner Road, Erith, during the bank holiday weekend in August 1987, on a frequency of 91. 8FM.

It was then cut in two by the building of the A2016 a 4 lane dual carriageway by-pass of the Woolwich to Erith section of the A206 though on leaving Woolwich only got as far as the industrial part of lower Belvedere ( the extension to Erith was opened in 1999 ).

Erith was a port on the River Thames until the 17th century ; the opening of the sewage works at nearby Crossness in the late 19th century turned it into an industrial town.

After the 2005 General Election, Erith and Thamesmead is represented by a Labour Party MP while the remaining two seats were held by the Conservative Party ; although on 29 January 2008 the Conservative Party whip was withdrawn from Old Bexley and Sidcup's MP Derek Conway following alleged misuse of funds, leaving him as an Independent MP.

The ridge of higher ground in South London crosses the Borough from its high point of Shooters Hill, on the boundary with the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to end above the River Thames at Belvedere, where the land drops down to the old port of Erith.

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.

Thamesmead, the " new town " built on what was the Erith Marshes, extends into the Borough: both Thamesmead North and South are located here.

Control of ship traffic on the Thames within the Port is orchestrated from two Port Control centres-one at the Thames Barrier ( the Thames Barrier Navigation Centre ) in Woolwich, for reaches upstream of Erith, and the other at Gravesend ( the main Port Control ) for reaches downstream of Erith.

The scheme involved major pumping stations at Deptford ( 1864 ) and at Crossness ( 1865 ) on the Erith marshes, both on the south side of the Thames, and at Abbey Mills ( in the River Lea valley, 1868 ) and on the Chelsea Embankment ( close to Grosvenor Bridge ; 1875 ), north of the river.

Celia Fiennes, who in 1697 proceeded out of London along the Dover Road, wrote in her diary of stopping at " Shuttershill, on top of which hill you see a vast prospect ... some lands clothed with trees, others with grass and flowers, gardens, orchards, with all sorts of herbage and tillage, with severall little towns all by the river, Erith, Leigh, Woolwich etc., quite up to London, Greenwich, Deptford, Black Wall, the Thames twisting and turning it self up and down bearing severall vessells and men of warre on it ".