Gravesend
This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedChristian FieldsIn the early 19thcentury when it was the duty of 'highway surveyors tocompel property owners to repair the roads of the...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedChurch Lane, Goes to Toltingtrow Green, meeting place of the Hundred St Margaret.‘Re-edified’ 1596 and repaired in 1648. A survivor of...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedDenton Court Road The namesurviving in Denton Court Road which occupies part ofthe siteSite of Saxon/Northmen cemetery. Bones found when...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedRochester RoadWhite Hart.Dartford Strood Road through Gravesend, built by KCC in 1926 St.Aiden's WaySt.Aiden's
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedThong Lane Gravesend Airport. During the years after the Great War of 1914 -1918 there was a surge of interest in aviationand many towns...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedWatling Street New road built by KCC and opened by Prince of Wales in 1924 Marling Cross denehole in the fields Old and new lines of...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedWindsor Great ParkLaid out on unproductive heath land – sand covered with heather and fern and studded with peat bottomed meres. The worst...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedVirginia Water An artificial lake laid out by the Duke of Cumberland, Master Ranger of Windsor Great Park, and his architect,...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedPortnall Estate17th land improvement scheme. The park had been part of the Royal Forest of Windsor. Disparked by Viscount Montague...
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedLongcross Station 1942 to serve military depot with own siding to it
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This post is not finished it has not been edited or checkedBarrowhills. Tree covered bowl barrowsFlutters Hill. Remains of bell barrow
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedChurch Path The chief remains of the village. Old path. Used to have thatched cottage on it 10 Fine wrought-iron gate formerly to a c17...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBeaford GroveSt.James by T. Ford & Partners, 1957. Wall painting of the Resurrection by Hans Feibusch. Stained Glass Shapland memorial window...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedAbbey Recreation Ground Called this after Merton Abbey which was in the area – it was never an Abbey but commonly called so.Circle Gardens,...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedCircle GardensSupposed to have been a church Crown Lane. Crown House The mediocre shopping centre around the L.T. station has this as its focus by...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedCentral RoadSt.George rebuilt 1639, Fifteenth century door, 14th century windows, 17th-century glass in the east window and an 18th-century pulpit...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedThames Tributary – East Pyl BrookThe East Pyl Brook rises here and flows west towards the Beverley BrookCanterbury RoadCouncil officesSmart Centre...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedSt.HelierHospital. Big, tall and broad, symmetrical composition, in a utilitarian modern idiom. 1938 by Saxon Snell & Phillips.St HelierAn...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBenhill AvenueWas Benhill StreetBenhill EstateBuilt by Sutton Council in the 1970s with 429 flatsBenhill Road Laid out by developer Thomas Alcock...
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This post is not finished it is not edited or checkedBiggin AvenuePreserves the old name ‘La Byggynge’ 1301, ‘Biggen’ 1587, ‘Begin’ 1765, ‘Biggin Farm’ 1876, that is 'the building", from Middle...
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