North Cray, Kent

Description
Cray, North, a parish in Kent, on the rivulet Cray, 1 mile NNE of Foots-Cray, and 1 1/2 mile from Bexley station on the S.E.R. It has a post office under Chislehurst; money order and telegraph office, Foots-Cray. Acreage, 1484; population, 549. North Cray Place belonged to the Hether-ingtons, passed to the Coventrys, and now belongs to Captain R. A. Vansittard. Vale Mascall, Mount Mascall, and Woollet Hall (where Lord Castlereagh once lived), are seats in the parish. Enxley or Rokeslie was once a separate parish, and had a church in Late Decorated English, now converted into a barn. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; tithe commuted at £363 with residence. The church is very good, and was rebuilt in 1858, and the chancel in 1870.