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Bexleyheath is a place in the London Borough of Bexley. It was originally called Bexley New Town and is in the traditional county of Kent. 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.
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Nearest railway stations:
- Albany Park railway station
- Barnehurst railway station
- Bexley railway station
- Bexleyheath railway station
