Heritage in Kent Thameside |
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Kent Thameside was settled by Stone Age man at a time when the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine. The Thames is one of the great rivers of Europe, and its estuary has formed a highway for trade with rest of the world since prehistoric days.
Exploring this website, visiting Towncentric information centre Gravesend, or Dartford Museum will enable you to appreciate more of the heritage, which includes:
- The 400,000 year old world famous ‘Swanscombe Skull’, now displayed in London’s Natural History Museum. It was retrieved from a former quarry, now Swanscombe Heritage Park, a Nature Reserve and Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- A Roman temple at Springhead
- A horizontal Anglo-Saxon water mill found at Northfleet during recent rail construction work.
- The recently restored Cobham Hall (Grade 1), its Repton landscape (Grade2), Darnley Mausoleum (Grade 1) and surrounding woods.
- Native American Princess Pocahontas, buried in St George’s churchyard Gravesend
- At Gravesend enhancement of the Heritage Quarter as the focus of its town centre regeneration and at Dartford its Townscape Heritage initiative
- Both towns will benefit from creative reuse of historic buildings as regeneration proceeds and from the improvement of their historic streetscapes
Web links:
Cobham Ashenbank Management Scheme (CAMS)
St George's Church Gravesend
Greenhithe
Downloads:
 Heritage Framework PDF To view PDF files, download Adobe Acrobat Reader free.
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere.
Antoine de Saint-Exuper
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