Things to Do in Crayford
Crayford Dog Track
Crayford Greyhound Track
Stadium Way
Crayford
Kent DA1 4HR
 01322 557836
 01322 559394
 www.crayford.com
 contact@crayford.com
Race Days: Monday and Saturday evenings, first
race 7.30pm. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons (start times vary)
and Saturday mornings.
Admission: £6.00 Adults, £4.50 Children.
Tuesday and Thursday BAGS - free entry and racecard. Saturday BAGS
- free entry.
Catering Facilities: Luxury restaurant seating
216. Snack bar. Two lounge bars.
Snack facilities: Snack bar serving wide range
of basket meals, beverages etc
Restaurant Facilities: 216-seat luxury restaurant
Parking: 800 Cars
Crowd capacity: 1,200
Crayford Library
Crayford Road,
Crayford,
Kent,
DA1 4ER
01322 526050
Opening Times:
| Monday: |
9.30-5.30 |
| Tuesday: |
9.30-5.30 |
| Wednesday: |
9.30-1.00 |
| Thursday: |
9.30-5.30 |
| Friday: |
CLOSED |
| Saturday: |
9.30-5.00 |
It is a branch library with hall for hire on first floor. It is
adjacent to Crayford Town Hall and close to Crayford Shops. People's
Network IT Suite. Disabled access to ground floor only.
Other Facilities:
- People's Network
- Community Information
- Council Local Information Point and Freephone
- Study facilities
- CDs
- Talking Books
- VHS Videos
- Photocopier
- Music Set Collection
- Hall for Hire
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Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre
Beech Walk
Crayford
DA1 4NP
01322 526390
www.thegwt.org.uk
The Geoffrey Whitworth is home to the The
New Theatre Group, an amateur club theatre company with over
1400 members, including 180 acting and backstage members. Founded
in 1948 as an amateur touring company, a permanent home was first
acquired in 1952. The present purpose built theatre was opened in 1959.
The theatre has a raked auditorium seating 150, a large proscenium
stage, a fully licensed bar, two foyers, a rehearsal studio, large
dressing rooms and plentiful on-site parking. With part funding
from the Arts Council Of England, an extension was built in 1998.
The theatre holds ten or eleven productions annually, each usually
lasting for 8 nights. There is normally a three week gap between
productions and a summer break between seasons.
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Cray Riverway Walk
The Cray Riverway walks start at Foots Cray meadows and, through three easy stages totalling 10 miles, take you through Bexley Village, Hall Place, Crayford and then out to the Rivers Darent and Thames, finishing in Erith. Each of the stages have leaflets available from Bexley Libraries, or can be downloaded from the link.
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out more about Cray Riverway Walk...
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Hall Place & Gardens
Bourne Road
Bexley
Kent DA5 1PQ
01322 526574
01322 533921
Hall Place, now a scheduled ancient monument and visitor attraction,
was built c1537 in the reign of Henry VIII for Lord Mayor of London
Sir John Champneis. It boasts a magnificent panelled Tudor great
hall and mistrals gallery, views over the finest topiary lawns in
London, herb garden, Italianate garden, and inspirational herbaceous
borders. The former walled garden contains garden displays and a
sub-tropical house and plant centre. The Silkworks shop is now also
relocated from the old David Evans site.
There is a shop, numerous exhibitions including a monthly programme
of selling art exhibitions year round. The House is also an extremely
popular venue for weddings, functions, meetings and conferences.
There are plenty of tours through the local area starting from
Hall Place as well as a lovely walk along the River Cray, stopping
at Waterside Gardens.
Hall Place & Gardens
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The London Loop in Bexley
The London Loop, one of the Mayor of London's key routes, almost completely
encircles Greater London, covering a total distance of around 240km (150ml).
It has been described as 'the M25 for walkers', although it rarely comes anywhere
near the motorway. The route stays as much as possible within Greater London,
to facilitate use of travelcards, but it has proved necessary to venture outside
in places. The only gap in the circuit is between Sections 24 at Purfleet and
1 at Erith, where the River Thames provides a substantial barrier of almost a
kilometre (half a mile) with no convenient crossing point.
The London Loop is a route that runs around the edge of the capital. In
the course of its 145-mile journey it runs through and alongside suburban streets,
farms, woods, river meadows, recreation grounds, canal towpaths and forgotten
bits of heath. The Loop (London Outer Orbital Path) was conceived in 1990 and
has only recently come into being. It has been planned to run between public
transport nodes and divides up naturally into fifteen comfortable day walks,
beginning on the south bank of the Thames at Erith and running clockwise around
the capital to end at Coldharbour Point, opposite Erith on the Essex bank.
The first of the 24 sections (Section 5) was opened on 3 May 1996, with a
ceremony on Farthing Downs, and other sections have followed at the rate of two
or three per year as signs are installed and leaflets for individual sections
are published. The route became fully walkable in 2001 with the publication of
the Aurum Press guidebook however at the time of writing some sections do not
yet have signs or individual leaflets, and a few diversions are necessary where
the preferred route is not yet available.
More information about the London Loop...
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Tower Retail Park
Crayford Road
Crayford
Kent
DA1 4ER
 9am till late (various)
This modern retail park contains some of the biggest stores around.
Convenient for the high street & Sainsbury's + Homebase.
These include Boot's, Comet, Next & Holiday Hypermarket.
The retail park has free parking for shoppers. There is also a drive
through McDonalds if you are feeling hungry after a hard days shopping.
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Crayford Town Hall
112 Crayford Road
Crayford
Kent
DA1 4ER
020 8303 7777
9am till late (various)
Crayford Town Hall was built in 1915 as the canteen and mess room
for the workers at Vickers Armament Factory. Crayford Urban District
Council bought it in 1929. It now serves as offices for the council
on its higher floors. Downstairs its main hall is used for various
meetings and public functions including Forum Meetings and also
Bingo for local residents.
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