title: Crays Pond
text: # Crays Pond
  
  Crays Pond is a hamlet situated in the parish of Goring Heath in South Oxfordshire. Crays Pond is about 2.4 miles (3.9 km) northeast of Goring-on-Thames and about 7.0 miles (11.3 km) northwest of Reading, Berkshire.
  
  ## Notable residents
  
  Notable residents of Crays Pond include the Russian ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov who both lived in the same Russian-owned safe house at different times.
  
  In 2016 Crays Pond 71-year old resident Doreen Pechey became the oldest person in Britain to pass the Royal Academy of Dance's grade 6 ballet exam and was dubbed "Britain's oldest ballerina".
  
  