Bexleyheath Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
Bexleyheath is in the London Borough of Bexley. The town is in the traditional County of Kent, and was originally named Bexley New Town. See external links under Bexley.The modern town area today offers a bingo hall, cinema, hotel, magistrates court, reference library, six-a-side football centre and ten-pin bowling alley amongst the more usual retail outlets. Many of those are listed on the website http://www.bexleyheath.towntalk.co.uk . The town has a railway station on the line between Blackheath and Dartford.
In 1859 Philip Webb designed a house, The Red House, for the artist, reforming designer and socialist William Morris on the western edge of the heath, before it became largely developed as a London suburb. It is an early essay in a romantically massed, non-historical brick-and-tiling domestic vernacular style. It was recently bought by the National Trust, so opportunities for public visits are likely to increase.