Southfleet
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| Southfleet | ||
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| OS grid reference: | TQ615715 | |
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| District: | Dartford | |
| Shire county: | Kent | |
| Region: | South East England | |
| Constituent country: | England | |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom | |
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| Ceremonial county: | Kent | |
| Historic county: | Kent | |
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| Police force: | {{{Police}}} | |
| Ambulance service: | South East Coast | |
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| Post town: | GRAVESEND | |
| Postal district: | DA13 | |
| Dialling code: | 01474 | |
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| European Parliament: | South East England | |
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Southfleet is a small compact village five miles SW of Gravesend in Kent; although it is a civil parish within Dartford Borough. The village is grouped around a crossroads and many of its buildings, including the Ship Inn, are extremely old. The parish church of St Nicholas has 14th century origins, although pre-Roman Christian remains have been found in the area.
Southfleet had a railway station on the Gravesend West branch line, which had been opened from Fawkham Junction near Longfield on 10 May 1886; the line was closed on 14 March 1968, although passenger traffic had ceased on 3 August 1953. The section of the trackbed south of the A2 road of that closed line has now been utilised for Phase 1 of Channel Tunnel Rail Link line to London Waterloo.
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with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes : |
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Bean • Darenth • Dartford • Ebbsfleet • Greenhithe • Hawley • Joydens Wood • Longfield • Longfield and New Barn • Maypole • New Barn • Southfleet • Stone • Sutton-at-Hone • Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley • Swanscombe • Swanscombe and Greenhithe • Wilmington |
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| The borough of Dartford List of places in Kent |
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