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• Kent
  ...s dry borders with just two other shires; [[Sussex]] and [[Surrey]] to the west. Northward over the River Thames and its broad estuary lies [[Essex]], link ...s location between [[London]] and Europe has led to its being in the front line of several conflicts, including the Battle of Britain during Second World W
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• Folkestone
  ...both sides of the original valley: the West Cliff and ''The Bayle'' to the West, and the East Cliff on the other side of the stream. The Pent Stream now ru ...stern Railway Company, which was then building the London to Dover railway line. George Turnbull was responsible in 1844 for building the Horn pier.<ref>Di
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• Greenwich
  ...2007</ref> It became known as ''East Greenwich'' to distinguish it from ''West Greenwich'' or ''Deptford Strond'', the part of [[Deptford]] adjacent to th ...reet and Crooms Hill, although more modern references to "''East''" and "''West''" Greenwich probably refer to a natural division either side of the vast e
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• Cliffe-at-Hoo
  ...o sections) was used by South Eastern Railway from 1845, bringing a branch line to Cliffe in 1882. ...tablishment of the 'Hundred of Hoo Railway Company'. The first part of the line was opened in March 1882, running from Cliffe to Sharnal Street.
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• Dartford
  ...he Dartford Marshes to the north, and the proximity of [[Crayford]] to the west, mean that the town's growth is to the south and east. [[Wilmington, Kent|W Dartford Heath spreads out to the south-west of Dartford, covering some 314 acres of open space. Historically it has alw
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• Gravesend
  |name=Gravesend |picture=Clocktower gravesend.jpg
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• River Medway
  The Medway initially flows in a west-east direction south of the [[North Downs]]. It becomes tidal at [[Allingto ...at Tonbridge where bridges carry the A227 road and a Redhill to Tonbridge Line|rail link over the river, there is also a two-span viaduct which takes the
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• Romney Marsh
  *the Romney Marsh proper, lying north of a line between [[New Romney]] and [[Appledore, Kent|Appledore]]; *the Walland Marsh, south of that line to approximately the Kent-Sussex border;
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• Sheppey
  Three ferries have operated between the mainland and the isle: one to the west, called the King's Ferry; one at [[Elmley]]; and another, giving access fro ...ed and dismantled in the 1930s. A passenger, car and lorry ferry (the Olau Line) operated to Flushing from Sheerness through the 1980s and 1990s, but there
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• Tilbury
  ...rn borrowed a name from the nearby villages of [[East Tilbury|East]] and [[West Tilbury]]. The name of these settlements is derived from the Saxon ''burgh' ...ted, mainly due to the narrowness of the river at this point. In addition, Gravesend and [[Northfleet]] (also on the south shore) both became vitally important
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• Longfield
  ...found six miles south east of [[Dartford]] and five miles south west of [[Gravesend]]. It contains several shops, a pub, and a 14th-century parish church. Longfield is four miles south east of Dartford and near Gravesend. It is contiguous with the village of [[Hartley, Kent|Hartley]] to the sout
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• Stone, Kent
  ...tford''', is one of a string of villages lying along the [[Dartford]] to [[Gravesend]] road on the south bank of the [[River Thames]] in [[Kent]]. Stone Crossing railway station is on the North Kent Line.
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• Northfleet
  |post town=Gravesend ...he site of a settlement on the shore of the [[River Thames]] adjacent to [[Gravesend]] since Roman times. It is recorded as ''Fleote'' c. AD 600, ''Flyote'' c.
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• Crossings of the River Thames
  ...Tunnel by Marc Brunel built in 1843 and now used to carry the East London Line. The Tower Subway was the first railway under the Thames, which was followe |A bridge across the weir on the Culham Cut, west of Culham Lock; further south, other bridges cross the main river channel
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• Watling Street
  ...] (Roman ''Verulamium'') and thence up through the [[Chilterns]] and north-west across the [[Midlands]]. It also refers to the road through [[Kent]] from ...inland to the ancient capital of Kent, [[Canterbury]]. From here it runs west to [[Blackheath, Kent|Blackheath]] and to north-eastern [[Surrey]] and on t
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• Tilbury Fort
  ...rthern, [[Essex]], bank of the [[River Thames]] at [[Tilbury]], opposite [[Gravesend]]. It was built by Henry VIII to defend [[London]] from attack from the se ...ute along the River Thames to London and the strategic ferry crossing to [[Gravesend]] on the opposite bank.<ref>[http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/
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• M20 motorway
  ...north of [[Bearsted]], crosses the Swanley to Ashford (via Maidstone East) Line then out into the countryside alongside [[Leeds Castle]]. Proceeding south :This section ended at a temporary junction near West Kingsdown.<ref name="harms">{{cite web|url=http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads
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• Bexleyheath
  ...velopment of Bexleyheath as a London suburb by championing the Bexleyheath Line in the 1880s to support the growth of estates around Danson Park. The clock ...Plumstead]] and [[Woolwich]]. The residents of these areas include a large West African community, predominantly Ghanaian and Nigerian.
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• Downderry
  ...ch is to be found a mile east of [[Seaton, Cornwall|Seaton]], and 18 miles west of [[Plymouth]]. The village and beach offer views of [[Looe Island]] to the west and [[Rame Head]] to the east and on clear days sight of the [[Eddystone Li
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• Eltham
  ...4) |date=February 2008 }}</ref> The three wards of Eltham North, South and West had a total population at the 2011 Census of 35,459. ...extraparochial hamlet of Mottingham, on the south-west, and by Lee on the west. It contains about 2,880 acres: of which about 360 are woodland; about 60 w
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