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 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.
External link
The Red House, brief details. (http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/The-Red-House.html)
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