Much of this neighbourhood area has a rural feel, with fields and woodland to the southeast and the Foots Cray meadows to the west. Most of the housing stock consists of semis clustered around the intersection of the A223 and A211 roads. There are a number of restaurants and other amenities along these roads too. Himalayan Spice is highly recommended, and The Lunch Box serves ‘quality food at low prices’. Bars and drinking establishments include Deep Bar and Seven Stars. There’s also a Tesco, Lidl, and a B&Q. The combination of green space, affordable housing, conveniences, and good road and rail access make this an excellent option for families and commuters. It took its name from Godwin Fot, a local Saxon landowner recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, and from the River Cray that passes through the village. Foots Cray’s traditional industries declined after the First World War, and Sidcup grew rapidly as a commuter town after a railway was built linking it to central London. In 1921 this change was reflected in the renaming of Foots Cray Urban District to Sidcup Urban District.

The naval wireless engineer and short-story writer F. G. Loring died at the Old House, Foot’s Cray on 7 September 1951, aged eighty-two.

The town gave its name to the suburb and former city of Footscray, now part of the metro area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Footscray is now part of the City of Maribyrnong.

There’s no train station in the neighbourhood area itself; Foot’s Cray doesn’t benefit from the same abundance of period housing stock as surrounding areas, and it has been described as a ‘bit of a blackspot’ for primary schools.

Foots Cray tends to be rather quiet when it comes to new developments. The large Lidl supermarket is currently being revamped and will provide new jobs to local residents. Nearby Sidcup has a new housing development on the way in the form of Hillcross Place, which will provide 36 new one- and two-bedroom homes and will bring new families too he Foots Cray neighbourhood.