Crays Hill
Crays Hill is a village in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. The River Crouch passes under Church Lane. The village was listed in Domesday Book of 1086 when the Lord of the manor and tenant-in-chief was Sasselin of Layer.Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Essex, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Crays Hill, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fryerns Library and Church of St Peter.
Fryerns Library
Library
Photo: Paul Francis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fryerns Library is situated 1½ miles south of Crays Hill.
Church of St Peter
Church
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter is situated 1½ miles southeast of Crays Hill.
Wickford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wykebjs, Public domain.
Wickford railway station is a junction stop on the Shenfield to Southend Line and also the western terminus of the Crouch Valley Line in the east of England, serving the town of Wickford in the Basildon district of Essex. Wickford railway station is situated 2 miles northeast of Crays Hill.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dale Farm and Great Burstead.
Dale Farm
Locality
Photo: Save Dale Farm, CC BY 2.0.
Dale Farm is a plot of land situated on Oak Lane in Crays Hill, Essex, United Kingdom. Until October 2011, it was the site of one of the largest Traveller concentrations in the UK, at its height housing over 1,000 people, along with the adjacent Oak Lane site.
Great Burstead
Village
Great Burstead is a village in the civil parish of Great Burstead and South Green in the Borough of Basildon in Essex, England. The village lies 1.5 miles south of the centre of Billericay. Great Burstead is situated 2 miles west of Crays Hill.
Wickford
Photo: Trevor Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wickford is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Basildon of Essex, England. It is located approximately 30 miles east of London and 4 miles north-east of Basildon.
Crays Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Ramsden Crays, Borough of Basildon, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.60285° or 51° 36′ 10″ northLongitude
0.47346° or 0° 28′ 25″ eastElevation
141 feet (43 metres)Open location code
9F32JF3F+49OpenStreetMap ID
node 46581323OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Crays Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Crays Hill”
- Dutch: “Crays Hill”
- French: “Crays Hill”
- Irish: “Crays Hill”
- Polish: “Crays Hill”
- Swedish: “Crays Hill”
- Welsh: “Crays Hill”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Crays Hill Park and Crays Hill Primary School.
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