Gravesend
Gravesend is in the county of Kent in the South East region of England. Gravesend is a historic town on the river Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. Since the late 14th century passengers have been transported to and from London by water on a "Tilt Boat".| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 58,100 residents
- Description: town in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Gravesend, Kent”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gravesend railway station and Gravesend Library.
Gravesend railway station
Railway station
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Gravesend railway station serves the town of Gravesend in north Kent, England. It is 23 miles 75 chains down the line from London Charing Cross. Train services are operated by Southeastern and Thameslink.
Gravesham Community Hospital
Hospital
Gravesham Community Hospital is a community hospital in Gravesend in the borough of Gravesham in Kent.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Northfleet and Tilbury.
Northfleet
Town
Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. It is located immediately west of Gravesend, and on the border with the Borough of Dartford.
Tilbury
Town
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Tilbury is a port town in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England on the Thames. The present port was established as separate settlement near East and West Tilbury and Tilbury Fort in the late 19th century, on land that was mainly part of Chadwell St Mary.
Chalk
Village
Chalk is a village and since 1935 a former civil parish which adjoins the east of Gravesend, in the Gravesham district, in the county of Kent, England.
Gravesend
- Categories: unparished area, market town, and locality
- Location: Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4425° or 51° 26′ 33″ northLongitude
0.3694° or 0° 22′ 10″ eastPopulation
58,100Elevation
69 feet (21 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB GVSOpen location code
9F32C9R9+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 27485897OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Gravesend” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غريفزند”
- Asturian: “Gravesend”
- Azerbaijani: “Qreyvzend”
- Basque: “Gravesend”
- Belarusian: “Грэйвсенд”
- Catalan: “Gravesend”
- Cebuano: “Gravesend”
- Chinese: “格雷夫森德”
- Czech: “Gravesend”
- Dutch: “Gravesend”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جراڤيسيند”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جريفزند”
- Esperanto: “Gravesend”
- Finnish: “Gravesend”
- French: “Gravesend”
- German: “Gravesend”
- Hebrew: “גרייבסנד”
- Indonesian: “Gravesend, Kent”
- Indonesian: “Gravesend”
- Irish: “Gravesend”
- Italian: “Gravesend”
- Japanese: “グレーブズエンド”
- Japanese: “グレーブセンド”
- Japanese: “グレーブゼンド”
- Japanese: “グレイヴズエンド”
- Japanese: “グレイヴゼンド”
- Japanese: “グレイブズエンド”
- Japanese: “グレイブセンド”
- Korean: “그레이브젠드”
- Ladin: “Gravesend”
- Latin: “Greva”
- Latvian: “Greivsenda”
- Macedonian: “Грејвзенд”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gravesend”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gravesend”
- Persian: “گریوزند”
- Polish: “Gravesend”
- Portuguese: “Gravesend”
- Romanian: “Gravesend”
- Russian: “Грейвзенд”
- Rusyn: “Грейвзенд”
- Serbian: “Грејвсенд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gravesend”
- Silesian: “Gravesend”
- Sindhi: “گريوزينڊ”
- Slovak: “Gravesend”
- Slovenian: “Gravesend”
- South Azerbaijani: “قریوزند”
- Spanish: “Gravesend”
- Swedish: “Gravesend”
- Tatar: “Грейвзенд”
- Turkish: “Gravesend”
- Ukrainian: “Грейвсенд”
- Urdu: “گریوسینڈ”
- Volapük: “Gravesend”
- Welsh: “Gravesend, Caint”
- Welsh: “Gravesend”
- Western Frisian: “Gravesend”
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