[13] On 21 June 1819 William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst was born in Ruxley,[14] he was a British military commander who served as Commander-in-Chief of India from 1865 to 1870.

In 1894 North Cray parish, including the settlement of Ruxley formed part of the newly created Bromley Rural District that existed from that year until 1934 when it was abolished.

[6] Today the church is a Grade II listed building and a scheduled ancient monument[6] on the grounds of Ruxley Manor Garden Centre,[1][6] and is owned by the Evans family.

[1] English Heritage have agreed to pay a grant of £35,000 of the estimated £62,000 needed for structural work on the building to help preserve it.

[21] The site comprises four gravel pits, which are now lakes, and the River Cray runs through three of them, while the fourth is fed by springs.

[22] Gravel extraction took place from 1929 to 1951, and once it ceased the pits attracted many species of birds and a diverse range of plants.

[18][23] Over 500 species of vascular plants and 169 of birds have been recorded, including song thrush, reed bunting, kingfisher and skylark.

This variety reflects the diversity of habitat: wooded islands, fringes of mature trees, scrub, fen and open water.

Sandy Lane, is a minor road that travels south from Ruxley Corner through St Paul's Cray.

Crittall's Corner, named after a window factory, comprises a much bigger and grade separated roundabout west of Ruxley and immediately south of Foots Cray.

Orpington Golf Centre is located immediately south of Ruxley and the A20 road Sidcup Bypass, its entrance is on Sandy Lane.

[30] At Ruxley Manor just to the south of Maidstone Road, there is a 420 square metre artificial, outdoor, ice skating rink that has opened during the winter since 2012.

At the same time, an almshouse was built adjacent to the woods, which, as of 2008, was being excavated by archaeologists belonging to Bexley Archaeological Group.

Several large retailers have used the open spaces in Ruxley next to the main roads to build stores, mostly Edgington Way.

In Upper Ruxley to the east, there is service area on the A20 road, Sidcup Bypass which includes a 24-hour McDonald's drive-through, another BP garage and a Subway restaurant.

[44] The Coca-Cola Company has a large manufacturing and bottling plant between Foots Cray and Ruxley which opened in 1961 and employs 361 people.

[45] Richard Klinger Group, an Austrian company which made engine gaskets, hydraulic pipelines and water level gauges and valves, had a factory in Ruxley built in 1937 in a Modernist architectural style.

The Klinger factory, which was later bought by French company Trouvey Cauvin, closed in the 1990s[46] and the building was severely damaged by fire in 2013.

A site where the original church and farm were, Ruxley Manor garden centre,[48] is located here to the south of Maidstone Road, includes two large car parks and several plant nurseries.