CRAY (FOOT'S), a parish in the hundred of RuxLEY,
lathe of SUTTON at HOVE, county of KENT, 12
miles (S. E.) from London, containing 221 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Rochester, rated in the king's books at
£ 8. 3. 4., endowed with £ 200 private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a small plain
building, supposed to be of high antiquity. This
parish probably derived its name from Fot, or Vot, its
proprietor in the time of Edward the Confessor, and
from the river Cray, which runs by the eastern end of
the village, there turning a mill, and then directing its
course towards North Cray. A National school was
established in 1815, for which the Rev. Francis Wollaston
left £200 five per cents.; and Benjamin Harence,
Esq., in 1817, gave land whereon a school-house had
been previously erected by subscription; from seventy
to eighty children of both sexes are taught at this school,
which is supported by contributions in aid of the original
bequest.