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Coombe Road
Denehole 1950
Cornwall Avenue
houses built in the early 1920s.
Echo Square
Denehole. It was near a public house called "The Echo", and in the back garden of a Mr. Stone.
Jellicoe Avenue
the first council houses were erected 1920s
Lamorna Avenue
Follows Denton boundary
Leander Drive
Gravesend Boat
Oak Road
Line of footpath from Gravesend to Toltingtrow Green
Old Road East
Line of footpath from Roman potteries to Watling Street
Christ Church. 1932, Taken down and faithfully rebuilt – actually came from Christ Church Gardens. In addition, clerestory. Design of the greatest simplicity and clarity. Detail intensely Kentish and local.the successor of the earlierChrist church Much of thematerial from the old church was taken down, markedand erected on the new site. The architect of the new churchwas G. E. Clay. The foundation stone was laid by FlorenceDowager Countess of Darnley on 16 October 1934, and thechurch was consecrated on 14 September 1935
Hillside. Became St. Joseph's Convent and chapel. Hillside the residence of Mr. John Russell, alderman and brewer of the town, and built by him about 1880 on a small spur with views over both the river to the north and the open country to the south. underground passage entrance found in the war, north east slope, tunnel into the hill.
Underground roads. The exits to the outer world, which do, or did, definitely exist-were and on the slope of what later became known as Hillside, overlooking the riiver with a particularly good -view of the lower reaches.
Jellicoe Avenue
King's Farm Welfare Centre
Portland Avenue
Pond at Sun Lane end
V2 14th November 1945 At 4.40pm four lives were; lost and 84 people injured.
Sun Lane
Line of footpath from Gravesend to Henhurst Lane. the first council houses were erected 1920s. Sun Lane is older than Whitehill Road, having been originallya lane leading to Cobham; it joins into Whitehill Road againat the top. Sun Lane wasalso called 'Old Sun Lane' and 'Sun Pond Lane'.The houses date from the middle of the 19th century with later onesfilling the gaps and replacing some of the older houses, whichhad large gardens.,
pond shown in old maps which was in the Milton Parish-south of Old Road East. There is a depression on the right-hand side near the end of PortlandAvenue.
Sun Beerhouse, Sun and Pie House At the junction of Sun Laneand Cross Lane there stood until about 1900 a buildingformerly the Sun inn or beerhouse, from which the lanetook its name. To this Pocock refers in his Chronology,where he records that a suicide named Knight was buried'in the four-went way near the Sun public-house, now aprivate house' 1797.
St.Hilda's Way
46 Westcourt Inn
Valley Drive
Roman route from Gravesend Ferry to Cobham. The upper part of Valley Drive wasformerly part of Whitehall Lane
Isolation hospitals and sanatorium of Gravesend andStrood councils built in 1887, Denton and Chalk parishesboth being formerly part of Strood Rural District. Aproposal to use these hospitals for a maternity hospital iscommemorated in the name of a public house establishedin one of the former hospital buildings and called The Storkat Rest.
Beautiful natural fold of ground obliterated by 'Ovaltine', used to be gaily coloured light aeroplanes hedge hopping
Line of footpath from Gravesend to Henhurst Lane
Stork at Rest marks old sanatorium site
Admiral Beatty
Whitehill Lane
Line of footpath from Gravesend to Henhurst Lane, 'road to the sanatorium’
Whitehill Road
Where Sun Lane joins into Whitehill Road at the top and beyond this point southward was known untilshortly after the Second World War as Whitehill Lane or, 'the lane to the Sanatorium'. Whitehill Roadwas a footpath until 1853. .The houses date from the middle of the 19th century with later onesfilling the gaps and replacing some of the older houses, whichhad large gardens.
Well/Denehole. Building contractors came across a shaft in chalk while clearing a site. The contractor dumped 500 tons of rubbish into the hole, but. when this failed to fill it became rather alarmed. Just below the topsoil was an arch of bricks, sealing the hole but pierced accidentally by the builder. Below this the shaft was 5 ft. wide and 55 ft. deep. Three slits were found in the sides of the shaft, each 2 ft. 6 ins. wide. Each led to a circular chalk chamber, 50 ft. deep to the debris that had been dumped down. The wells were 18 ft. in diameter. It was estimated that altogether 2,400 tons of chalk had been taken from the shaft.
Gates. About three-quarters of the way along WhitehillRoad on the right beyond Canterbury Road may be seena pair of tall iron gates leading to an enclosure whereformerly stood the residence of Mr. G. E. Sharland, townclerk of Gravesend for many years. These gates stood priorto 1901 at the London Road entrance to RoshervilleGardenss
CanterburyHouse. On the opposite side of the road stoodat one time. the residence of W. Edmonds, a dentist,who was a one-time mayor and alderman. This was the firsthouse to have electric light from current generated by a smallsteam engine installed by his son Hubert Edmonds, a marineengineer
145 Whitehill Tavern