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Crays Hill

Crays Hill

Human settlement in England

Crays Hill is a village in the Basildon borough of Essex, England. The River Crouch passes under Church Lane.[1]

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The village was listed in Domesday Book of 1086 when the Lord of the manor and tenant-in-chief was Sasselin of Layer.[2]

Crays Hill was part of the civil parish of Ramsden Crays until 1934 when it was abolished to enlarge South Hanningfield.[3]

Dale Farm

Crays Hill is the site of Dale Farm, once the largest Irish Traveller site in Europe.[4] There has been a long-running legal battle by Basildon Council to evict the travellers who have illegally built upon green belt land.[5] The council sent in police and bailiffs on 19 October 2011 to clear the disputed section of the site.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Essex explorer - river crouch". Archived from the original on 31 January 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  2. [2]
    "Crays Hill". Open Domesday. Anna Powell-Smith/University of Hull. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  3. [3]
    "Ramsden Crays parish". Vision of Britain. University of Portsmouth. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
  4. [4]
    "CRAYS HILL: You can't get rid of us that easily, say gipsies". Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
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    "CRAYS HILL: You can't get rid of us that easily, say gipsies". Archived from the original on 23 January 2009. Retrieved 6 August 2009.
  6. [6]
    Dale Farm eviction Live updates Archived 2011-10-24 at archive.today

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