River Darent
The Darent is a Kentish tributary of the River Thames and takes the waters of the River Cray as a tributary in the tidal portion of the Darent near Crayford.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Darent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Purfleet railway station and Dartford Creek Barrier.
Purfleet railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Purfleet railway station is on the London, Tilbury and Southend line serving the town of Purfleet, Essex. It is 16 miles 2 chains down the line from London Fenchurch Street and it is situated between Rainham to the west and Grays to the east.
Dartford Creek Barrier
Industrial building
Photo: The wub, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dartford Creek Barrier is an industrial building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Purfleet and Slade Green.
Purfleet
Village
Photo: Mike Shinners, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Purfleet-on-Thames is a town in the Thurrock unitary authority, Essex, England. It is bordered by the A13 road to the north and the River Thames to the south and is within the easternmost part of the M25 motorway but just outside the Greater London boundary.
Slade Green
Suburb
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Slade Green is an area of South East London, England, within the London Borough of Bexley. It lies northeast of Bexleyheath, northwest of Dartford, Kent and south of Erith, London, and 13 miles east-southeast of Charing Cross.
Wennington
Village
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wennington is a small village in the London Borough of Havering, in east London. It is situated 14.8 miles east of Charing Cross. Wennington was an ancient parish in the county of Essex that was abolished for civil purposes in 1934. Wennington is situated 1½ miles north of River Darent.
River Darent
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“River Darent” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Darent”
- Cebuano: “River Darent”
- Chinese: “達倫特河”
- Dutch: “Darent”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر دارينت”
- Finnish: “Darent”
- German: “River Darent”
- Hebrew: “נהר דרנט”
- Italian: “Darent”
- Japanese: “ダレント川”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Darent”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darent”
- Norwegian: “Darent”
- Polish: “Darent”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Darent”
- Swedish: “River Darent”
- Welsh: “Afon Darent”
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Highlights include Mardyke and Slade Green railway station.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “River Darent”. Photo: P Ingerson, Public domain.