Shorne Woods Country Park
Shorne Woods Country Park is located between Strood and Gravesend, in the English county of Kent. It was once part of a large estate, later passed to the county council to be used as a country park.Photo: PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Opening hours:
9:00 AM—dusk
December 25th: closed - Type: Park
- Description: park in United Kingdom
- Address: Brewers Road, DA12 3HX
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cobham Hall School and Gads Hill Place.
Cobham Hall School
School
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. Gads Hill Place is situated 2 miles east of Shorne Woods Country Park.
Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thong and Singlewell.
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.
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 1½ miles west of Shorne Woods Country Park.
Chalk
Village
Shorne Woods Country Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Shorne, Borough of Gravesham, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.40551° or 51° 24′ 20″ northLongitude
0.4175° or 0° 25′ 3″ eastOperator
Kent County CouncilOpen location code
9F32CC48+6XOpenStreetMap ID
way 549549737OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q15277429
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