Originally fen utilized for agriculture, a isolated Crayford marshes were an ideal location for a big ammunition works which survived until the 1960s. A locality is at present in a main residential sustaining occasionally industry confined to the places of the old works & the locality adjacent to the railway which has big carriage depot for rolling futures on the line. There are 2 churches, foursome saloon, 2 lodge & amateur football team Slade Green Athletic.

Bus routes 469, 428 & 89 service a metropolitan area & South Eastern Trains serve Slade Green railway station on the North Kent Line from Dartford to London.