Lower Shorne
Lower Shorne is a hamlet in Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, England. Lower Shorne is situated nearby to the hamlet Upper Ifield, as well as near the village Shorne Ridgeway.Places of Interest
Highlights include Gads Hill Place and Higham Library.
Gads Hill Place
Manor estate
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill Place in Higham, Kent, sometimes spelt Gadshill Place and Gads Hill Place, was the country home of Charles Dickens. Today the building is the independent Gad's Hill School.
Gad’s Hill School
School
Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.
Gad's Hill School in Higham, Kent, England, is an independent school for day pupils, founded in 1924. It is set in the former Gads Hill Place, the country home of Charles Dickens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thong and Chalk.
Thong
Hamlet
Thong is a hamlet southeast of Gravesend in Kent, England. The population of the hamlet is included in the civil parish of Shorne. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names and appeared as a question answer for Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4. Thong is situated 1½ miles southwest of Lower Shorne.
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. Chalk is situated 1½ miles northwest of Lower Shorne.
Singlewell
Suburb
Photo: Glyn Baker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Singlewell or Ifield is an area south of Gravesend, in the Gravesham district, in the county of Kent, England. Originally two separate settlements on either side of Watling Street, it is now separated by the A2 road and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and bears little resemblance to its past. Singlewell is situated 2½ miles west of Lower Shorne.
Lower Shorne
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.42102° or 51° 25′ 16″ northLongitude
0.43559° or 0° 26′ 8″ eastOpen location code
9F32CCCP+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 770631934OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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