Crays Hill
Crays Hill is a village in the Basildon borough of Essex, England, twinned with the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire. The River Crouch passes under Church Lane.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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.
Gloucester Park
Park
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gloucester Park in Basildon is an urban neighbourhood park, named after the Duke of Gloucester who opened the park in 1957. In the 1970s, a 6-acre artificial fishing lake was made in the park, and it has held the annual Basildon Festival since 2001, which was moved from Wat Tyler Park. Gloucester Park is situated 2 miles southwest 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 Basildon borough of Essex, England. It is located approximately 30 miles east of London and 4 miles north-east of the centre of Basildon.
Crays Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Ramsden Crays, Borough of Basildon, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Crays Hill from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Crays Hill”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ramsden Bellhouse and Noak Bridge.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Crays Hill Park and Crays Hill Primary School.
Essex: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Colchester, Chelmsford, Southend-on-Sea, and Basildon.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Crays Hill”. Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.