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The Three Daws’ Story a Guided Walk with Gravesend Historical Told with Short Tour and Illustrated Talk with Former Home of Charles Dickens Society VISITOR GUIDE 2016/17 Discover Kent’s Hidden Gem GRAVESEND www.gogravesham.com Visitor Guide 2015/16 Visitor Guide 2016/17 Visit our website Join us on Welcome to www.gogravesham.com facebook.com/GoGravesham Find further information about the area, events listings, online GRAVESEND Guide 2016/17 accommodation booking on our tourism website. twitter.com/GoGravesham Gravesham has been welcoming In addition, Cyclopark is a world class visitors for centuries and today remains BMX and cycling facility worth a visit. a well-connected place for the tourist There’s always plenty to do in the and those on business. The high speed borough and it makes a convenient rail link has brought Gravesend closer we are here! base from which to venture further to London and the river offers the afield in Kent and London. opportunity to take more leisurely routes from the new pontoon. Cllr Jordan Meade The borough is as diverse and Gravesham Lead Member for cosmopolitan as its people, Heritage, Tourism & Youth Gravesend is full of historic and cultural connections. Charles Dickens lived here and took inspiration from our villages and Contents marshland walks as well as the town. Cobham Hall with its famous landscaping 04 Town and Villages and extraordinary architecture was the 06 Countryside home of cricket’s Ashes and the first English settlers of the New World departed 08 Walking and Cycling from the piers of Gravesend. 10 History and Heritage 2016/17 will be a big year to remember 14 Fun and Entertainment the Native American Indian Pocahontas as we commemorate the 400th 16 Heritage Events Anniversary of her death in Gravesend Acknowledgments Want to feature 18 Guided Walks your business with and her burial at St George’s church. Details and information contained in A full programme of events is being 20 Countryside Events this visitor guide have been supplied by Go Gravesham? developed and will soon be available. accommodation providers, attraction 24 Riverside Events If you’ve liked our guide and General Gordon stayed in the town managers and other hospitality businesses. 27 Talks Please note that Go Gravesham cannot are interested in taking a and devoted huge energy to creating accept responsibility for any errors, space in next year’s brochure, schools and improving local amenities. 28 Town Centre Events omissions or subsequent alterations. please get in touch with Both are remembered with statues in us. Spaces are available to the borough. 32 Arts and Entertainment We hope you will enjoy your stay, visits to the accommodation providers, Up to date, the magnificent Sikh 34 Accommodation in Gravesham local attractions, and events in the Borough. visitor attractions, event But if you are not satisfied, please take up the Gurdwara is the largest in Europe 37 Eating Out in Gravesham organisers, and any other and attracts admirers from all over matter with the manager immediately so they hospitality businesses. have the opportunity to address the problem. the globe. 40 Gravesend Visitor Centre The borough has two leisure centres, Cascades and Cygnet, which provide 36Telephone:www.visitgravesham.comwww.gogravesham.com 01474 33 76 00 Email: [email protected] great sports facilities for all the family. www.gogravesham.com 03 Visitor Guide 2016/17 Visitor Guide 2016/17 Gravesend Riverside Pier and Pontoon Gravesend Gudwara Dickens Honeymoon Cottage, Chalk restaurant or fine modern Mediterranean cuisine with panoramic views of the River, Town and Villages an award winning Fish & Chip Discover Kent’s Hidden Gem restaurant or good food in the smart surroundings of a village restaurant, a traditional public house within a ball’s throw of a cricket pitch or a local Discover more about Gravesend’s Featuring well-known High Street café, then you will be able to Luddesdown Village unique and historic position on chain stores and a good variety of find somewhere with great the River Thames and its role as a independent shops, two shopping food, affordable prices maritime gateway to the Port of centres, Gravesend Town and attention to service. London. No other town in Kent can Centre boasts a wide range offer the Thames-side ambience of of good value shopping. If you are looking Gravesend. Enjoy walking, cycling or for local, fresh and horse-riding in the exceptional local Visit the Gravesend seasonal produce countryside and popular country Heritage Quarter and Gravesend’s why not start by parks and meander around the old High Street, then head for attending one of charming local villages of Cobham, the ‘big name’ stores in the main Gravesham’s monthly Higham, Shorne, Meopham, shopping street of New Road and Farmers’ Markets at Vigo and Luddesdown with their the adjoining shopping centres at Gravesend, Meopham pleasant pubs and restaurants. Thamesgate and St George’s Centre. or Vigo, visiting a farm shop or making Gravesend High St. Visit one of Kent’s great estates at Further afield is the regional contact direct with Cobham Hall and take a stroll in shopping and events venue at local food producers Cobham Park’s historic landscape. Bluewater, Glow Bluewater. in the Borough. Invade Gravesham’s unique Gravesham has an excellent and ‘cluster’ of defence heritage and increasing variety of great places wonder at the craftsmanship of to eat and drink. Whether you are Pocahontas Statue, the Sikh Temple and the serenity of looking for an inventive Indian Gravesend historic churches in the borough. 04 www.gogravesham.com www.gogravesham.com 05 Visitor Guide 2016/17 Visitor Guide 2016/17 Luddesdown Photo: Andrew Whittaker AONB that extends across Kent from Jeskyns its Surrey border following the North Downs to Canterbury and on to Dover. Comprising the dramatic chalk escarpments to the south of Vigo and the secluded dry valleys, networks of lanes, historic hedgerows, ancient woodlands and traditional orchards of Meopham, Cobham and Luddesdown, the AONB boasts locally distinctive villages, unique and precious wildlife Photo: Wayne Howes and sites of historic and cultural interest. All these were designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1968. Cobham Mausoleum Enjoy stunning views of the Thames Estuary and Marshes from Chalk Marshes to the east of Gravesend. Internationally recognized for the importance of its marine and terrestrial habitats, they are part of the North Kent Countryside Marshes along the15 km, south Discover Kent’s Hidden Gem bank of the Thames Estuary. Many birds can be seen on the coastal grazing marsh, salt marsh and mudflats, such as breeding, passage and wintering waterfowl and farmland Nestling between the River Thames Plan your visit to include a birds; supporting struggling Photo: Deana King Estuary wetlands of international walk or cycle to or around species, such as Lapwing and importance and the North Downs, one or more of the Redshank, nationally rare Cobham the countryside to the east villages of Cobham, and scarce plant species, and south of Gravesend is an Higham, Luddesdown, as well as endangered, exceptional Area of Outstanding Meopham, Shorne vulnerable and rare National Beauty containing ancient and Vigo. Call in to invertebrate species. woodland and country parks, absorb the peace of an historic villages of windmills, country ancient country church The Saxon Shore Way houses and cricket on the green. or enjoy refreshment offers a walk along the in one of the many Thames from Gravesend Trace the numerous literary and historic public houses. or Cliffe Pools. Cyclists can film connections this area has and also visit the Chalk Marshes especially with the life and novels of The diverse and vibrant landscape nature reserve using the Sustrans Charles Dickens, England’s renowned of the Kent Downs stretches along track, which runs alongside novelist. An area which he called ‘the the Thames escarpment of the the Thames & Medway Canal fairest spot in the Garden of England’. North Downs on the eastern side of to the south of the reserve. Gravesham. It forms a section of the 06 www.gogravesham.com Meopham Windmill www.gogravesham.com 07 Visitor Guide 2016/17 & ScooterOn site Hire Bike Walking and Cycling GREAT Discover Kent’s Hidden Gem FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY... Open every day. Monday to Sunday... With a cluster of country alongside the Thames & Take your bike along the parks, community Medway Canal, follow National Cycle Route l Traffic Free Zone woodland, and historic sections of the long that weaves its way l parklands, Gravesham distance Saxon Shore across town or enjoy the Play Park provides quality outdoor Way, Wealdway, the network of bridleways on l Skate Park activities. North Downs Way or horseback. l BMX Track discover the Darnley The Cyclopark is Gaze out across the Thames l Mountain Bike Trails Trail within the historic showcased as Kent’s valley from a vantage point landscape of Cobham l Road Race Circuit newest multi sports at Gravesend’s Windmill Park and enjoy the activity venue, offering Hill or experience the numerous secluded first class BMX, cycling, views across the estuarine country footpaths that skateboarding, running marshes from Higham and Don’t go criss-cross the area. and extreme sports Shorne. hungry facilities, and provides the Relax in the more formal great With access to the Kent ideal venue for a family parks and open spaces food at countryside further afield, day out. within the town. Gordon Cyclocafe Gravesham is an ideal Gardens has colourful Walk in ancient base to explore so much floral displays and woodland at Cobham more. Woodlands Park with its and Ashenbank Woods, children’s play areas. O Holidayu Activityt Programmes COME AND DISCOVER WHAT FUN YOU CAN HAVE ON WHEELS find out more... Call the park on 01474 831400 or visit www.cyclopark.com 08 www.visitgravesham.com Where to find us: Cyclopark, The Tollgate, Wrotham Road,www.visitgravesham.com Gravesend, Kent, DA11 7NP Visitor Guide 2016/17 Visitor Guide 2016/17 History and Heritage Pujji Statue Discover Kent’s Hidden Gem Discover thousands of years of Gravesham’s heritage, from its early settlement Find more about some of our local to the present day, including the story behind the names Gravesend and ‘heroes’ influential in the area’s history Gravesham by visiting the virtual museum at www.discovergravesham.co.uk.
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