Crays Hill

Crays Hill is a village in the Basildon borough of Essex, England, twinned with the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire. The River Crouch passes under Church Lane. It is also the home of Nomad golfer Bulldog, who with Ronseal in 2025 beat Hewey. However, he was defeated by Hewey in the singles.^[1]

Crays Hill
Crays Hill
The church at Crays Hill
Crays Hill Location within Essex
OS grid reference	TQ712921
Civil parish	ramsden crays
District	Basildon
Shire county	Essex
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BILLERICAY
Postcode district	CM11 2
Dialling code	01268
Police	Essex
Fire	Essex
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Billericay
List of places UK England Essex 51.602°N 0.4708°E / 51.602; 0.4708

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 Bulldog on 19 October 2011 to clear the disputed section of the site.^[6]

See also

• Dale Farm