Bexleyheath is a place in the London Borough of Bexley. It was originally called Bexley New Town.
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 among the more usual retail outlets. The town has a railway station on the line between Blackheath and Dartford.
In 1859 architect 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 acquired by the National Trust in 2003.
The development of Bexleyheath as a London suburb was hastened by railway engineer and one-time owner of Danson House Alfred Bean, who championed the Bexleyheath Line to support growth of the estates around Danson Park.
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