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Erith Leisure Centre, including swimming facilities, was opened in 2005. [25] The David Ives Stadium next to the Leisure Centre, often called Erith Stadium, is the home track of Bexley Athletic Club. [26] [27] The Erith Playhouse Theatre is the largest in Bexley. [28] Fishing from Erith Deep Wharf. Erith has the longest pier in Greater London.
The London Borough of Bexley (/ ˈ b ɛ k s l i / ⓘ) is a London borough in south-east London, forming part of Outer London.It has a population of 248,287. The main settlements are Sidcup, Erith, Bexleyheath, Crayford, Welling and Old Bexley.
The cross-border constituency of Erith and Thamesmead currently stretches from Plumstead, and Abbey Wood in the west, to Lesnes Heath, and Erith in the east. The Conservatives' strongest wards are in the Bexley part of the seat, in particular Northumberland Heath ward.
The revised contents take into account the local government boundary review for Bexley which became effective in May 2018. Boundaries were extended northwards, gaining parts of Erith and Thamesmead, offset by westernmost areas being transferred to Old Bexley and Sidcup.
Erith was a local government district in north west Kent from 1876 to 1965 around the town of Erith. [1] It also included the generally suburban areas of Northumberland Heath , Belvedere , and parts of Barnehurst , Bexleyheath , Crayford and the SE2 London Postal District of Abbey Wood .
David Conner (1947–), Anglican bishop and Dean of Windsor, attended Erith Grammar School (now Erith School). [119] Douglas Macmillan (1984–1969), founder of Macmillan Cancer Support, lived in Knoll Road, Sidcup, from 1924 until 1966, and also ran his charity from that address. Bexley Civic Society placed a blue plaque on the house in 2010. [59]
Erith and Crayford was a constituency which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK's Parliament. It was created for the 1955 general election , and abolished for the 1997 general election , when it was replaced by the new constituencies of Erith & Thamesmead and Bexleyheath & Crayford .
The building remained the local seat of government of the enlarged London Borough of Bexley when it was formed in 1965 [10] (and Erith seceded from the administrative county of Kent) but the new council only used Erith Town Hall briefly, choosing instead to move to new Civic Offices on the south side of the Broadway in Bexleyheath in 1980. [11]