St. Mary Cray in 1836
St. Mary Cray, the most considerable of the villages which take their name from the river Cray (the others are St. Paul's Cray, Foot's Cray, and North Cray), in Ruxley hundred, Sutton-at-Hone lathe, is on a cross-road which connects the Maidstone and Hastings roads, 13 miles from London. It had formerly a market, but it was discontinued in 1703 in consequence of the market-house having been blown down. The population in 1831 was 905.
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