Crayford

==History==

==History==

An [[Iron Age Britain|Iron Age]] settlement existed in the vicinity of the present [[Church of St Paulinus|St Paulinus Church]] between the [[Caesar's invasion of Britain|Julian]] and [[Roman conquest of Britain|Claudian invasions of Britain]], from roughly 30 BC to AD 40. Roman ruins have been discovered and Crayford is one of several places proposed as the site of [[Noviomagus Cantiacorum]], a place mentioned in the [[Antonine Itinerary]] as being on the Roman equivalent of the later [[Watling Street]]. Crayford is also plausible as the site of the bloody [[battle of Crecganford]] ("Creeks[[river ford|ford]]") in 457 in which Hengist defeated [[Vortimer]] to become the supreme sovereign of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]].{{cite book |last1=Brayley |first1=Edward Wedlake |title=The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Original Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of Each Country. Vol.VII. |date=1808 |publisher=Thomas Maiden Sherbourn-Lane |location=London |pages=550 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075909048;view=1up;seq=768 |access-date=9 March 2019 |ref=Hathi Trust Digital Library}}{{cite book |last1=Schofield |first1=John |title=The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire |date=1999 |publisher=Sutton |isbn=0750921838 |page=21 |edition=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xh0XAQAAIAAJ&q=crayford |access-date=8 August 2018}} The [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] written around 400 years later describes how [[Hengist]] and [[Oisc|Æsc]] defeated the "Brettas" at that battle.

An [[Iron Age Britain|Iron Age]] settlement existed in the vicinity of the present [[Church of St Paulinus|St Paulinus Church]] between the [[Caesar's invasion of Britain|Julian]] and [[Roman conquest of Britain|Claudian invasions of Britain]], from roughly 30 BC to AD 40. Roman ruins have been discovered and Crayford is one of several places proposed as the site of [[Noviomagus Cantiacorum]], a place mentioned in the [[Antonine Itinerary]] as being on the Roman equivalent of the later [[Watling Street]]. Crayford is also plausible as the site of the bloody [[battle of Crecganford]] ("Creeks[[river ford|ford]]") in 457 in which Hengist defeated [[Vortimer]] to become the supreme sovereign of [[Kingdom of Kent|Kent]].{{cite book |last1=Brayley |first1=Edward Wedlake |title=The Beauties of England and Wales; or, Original Delineations Topographical, Historical and Descriptive of Each Country. Vol.VII. |date=1808 |publisher=Thomas Maiden Sherbourn-Lane |location=London |pages=550 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075909048;view=1up;seq=768 |access-date=9 March 2019 |ref=HathiTrust Digital Library}}{{cite book |last1=Schofield |first1=John |title=The Building of London: From the Conquest to the Great Fire |date=1999 |publisher=Sutton |isbn=0750921838 |page=21 |edition=3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xh0XAQAAIAAJ&q=crayford |access-date=8 August 2018}} The [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] written around 400 years later describes how [[Hengist]] and [[Oisc|Æsc]] defeated the "Brettas" at that battle.

Crayford is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]], which was compiled just prior to 1086, as a settlement within the [[Little and Lesnes Hundred|Hundred of Litlelee]] with a church, three mills, and a relatively large population of 27 regular householders ([[villein]]s) and two [[smallholder]]s. Its overlord was not a private individual or the king but [[Christ Church, Canterbury]].[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ5177/crayford/ Domesday Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220131633/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ5177/crayford/ |date=20 February 2015 }} Retrieved 2013-08-23

Crayford is mentioned in the [[Domesday Book]], which was compiled just prior to 1086, as a settlement within the [[Little and Lesnes Hundred|Hundred of Litlelee]] with a church, three mills, and a relatively large population of 27 regular householders ([[villein]]s) and two [[smallholder]]s. Its overlord was not a private individual or the king but [[Christ Church, Canterbury]].[http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ5177/crayford/ Domesday Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220131633/http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/TQ5177/crayford/ |date=20 February 2015 }} Retrieved 2013-08-23