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Northfleet

Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England.

Northfleet
Northfleet · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Northfleet is a town in the borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. It is located immediately west of Gravesend, and on the border with the Borough of Dartford. Northfleet has its own railway station on the North Kent Line, just east of Ebbsfleet International railway station on the High Speed 1 line. According to the 2021 census, Northfleet has a population of 29,900.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northfleet

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Bluewater

    Bluewater Shopping Centre is a large out-of-town shopping centre, located just outside Dartford, Kent, and accessible from the M25 motorway and A2. Opened on 16 March 1999 in a former chalk quarry after ten years of building works, the site occupies 240 acres and has a sales floor area of 154,000 m2 over three levels, making it the fifth-largest shopping centre in the UK.

    4.8 km · shopping centre in Stone, Dartford, Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Stone Castle

    Stone Castle is a castle at Stone, near Western Quarry in Kent, England. It was built between 1135 and 1140 on the site where William the Conqueror signed a treaty with the men of Kent in 1067.

    4.3 km · castle in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Swanscombe Heritage Park

    The Swanscombe Skull Site is a 3.9-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest and National Nature Reserve in Swanscombe, Kent, England, now forming part of the broader Swanscombe Heritage Park. The site lies within Barnfield Pit, the most significant of several former gravel quarries that once supplied raw materials to the nearby Swanscombe Cement Works, and contains two Geological Conservation Review sites.

    2.9 km · geological site and nature reserve in Kent, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara

    The Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara ) is a Sikh Gurdwara situated in the town of Gravesend, Kent. It is the largest Gurdwara in Europe and also one of the largest outside India.

    2.4 km · gurdwara in Gravesend, Gravesham, Kent, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Stonebridge Road

    Stonebridge Road is a multi-purpose stadium in Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, England, also known as Morrow Stadium for sponsorship reasons. It is primarily used for football matches.

    1.6 km · stadium · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ebbsfleet Valley

    Ebbsfleet Valley is a new town and redevelopment area in Kent, South East England, and part of the Thames Gateway, southwest of Gravesend. Development is coordinated by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation.

    3 km · new town in Dartford, Kent, England, undergoing development as part of the Ebbsfleet Garden City project · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tilbury Fort

    Tilbury Fort, also known historically as the Thermitage Bulwark and the West Tilbury Blockhouse, is an artillery fort on the north bank of the River Thames in England. The earliest version of the fort, comprising a small blockhouse with artillery covering the river, was constructed by King Henry VIII to protect London against attack from France as part of his Device programme.

    2.9 km · bastioned fort on the Thames Estuary · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St George's Church, Gravesend

    St George's Church, Gravesend, is a Grade II*-listed Anglican church dedicated to Saint George the patriarch of England, which is situated near the foot of Gravesend High Street in the Borough of Gravesham. It serves as Gravesend's parish church and is located in the diocese of Rochester in Kent, England.

    2 km · Anglican church in Kent, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Mary

    The Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Chadwell St Mary, Thurrock, Essex. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    5 km · historic church in Chadwell St Mary, Essex, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Hangman's Wood and Deneholes

    Hangman's Wood and Deneholes is a 3-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Little Thurrock in Essex. The deneholes, which were created by medieval chalk mining, are a scheduled monument.

    5.5 km · UK Site of Special Scientific Interest · Wikipedia

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Getting to Northfleet

Airports
London Gatwick (LGW), 49 km · London Stansted (STN), 50 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 56 km
Stations
Ebbsfleet International railway station, 1.4 km · Port of Tilbury, 2.3 km · Northfleet railway station, 1.3 km · Swanscombe railway station, 2.3 km · Greenhithe railway station, 4.4 km
  • London → Northfleet
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3.5–4.5
  • London, Essex → Northfleet
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £3.5–4.5
  • Luton, Luton → Northfleet
    71 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northfleet

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Northfleet. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    142 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    349 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    375 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    585 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    620 km

If you know how people move in Northfleet – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Northfleet

Northfleet is 32 km from Islington, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gravesendtown in Kent, England2 km
  • Graystown in Essex, England3.8 km
  • Tilburytown in the borough of Thurrock, Essex, England2.6 km
  • Graveshamnon-metropolitan district with borough status in Kent, England5.3 km
  • Dartfordnon-metropolitan district with borough status in Kent, England, UK5.2 km
  • Swanscombesmall town in the Dartford Borough of Kent, England, United Kingdom3 km