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Gravesend Cemetery

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Gravesend Cemetery began life in 1834 as a pleasure garden for day-trippers arriving off the Thames steamboats, before being laid out as a cemetery in 1838 by Stephen Geary, the architect behind Highgate Cemetery’s grand entrance. Gravesham council has run it since 1905, and it’s open daily and free like any municipal cemetery — roughly 8am to 5:30pm in summer, 8am to 4pm through winter, with gates locking on the dot. It’s a short walk from Gravesend blockhouse on the Thames.

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Photo along the King Charles III England Coast Path, a 2,700-mile National Trail in England.

King Charles III England Coast Path

National Trail

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

1.3 km N · spans 24 counties

Photo along the Saxon Shore Way, a 160-mile long-distance path running from Gravesend to Hastings, south east England.

Saxon Shore Way

Long-distance path

Around Kent's Roman-era coastline from Gravesend to Hastings — a shore the sea has since abandoned for miles at a stretch.

1.4 km NE · Kent & East Sussex

Photo of Milton Chantry, a ruined chapel near Rochester, Kent, south east England.

Milton Chantry

Chapel near Rochester

Chantry chapel of 1322 in Gravesend's Fort Gardens, the oldest building in the borough, later turned into an inn and then army barracks.

1.8 km NE

Photo of Tilbury Fort, an artillery fort near Rochester, Essex, eastern England.Highlight

Tilbury Fort

Artillery fort near Rochester

Star-shaped 17th-century artillery fort on the Thames, England's best-preserved of its kind.

2.3 km NE

Photo of the Kent Downs, a National Landscape in Kent, south east England.Highlight

Kent Downs

National Landscape near Charing

Chalk hills, ancient woods and orchards, ending in the white cliffs above the Channel

4.2 km SE

Photo of St Mary's, Higham, a church in Kent, south east England.Highlight

St Mary's, Higham

Church near Higham

Marshland church with a carved medieval oak screen, near the Gad's Hill home of Charles Dickens.

7.6 km E