Southfleet

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Southfleet
Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ615715
Administration
District:	Dartford
Shire county:	Kent
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Kent
Historic county:	Kent
Services
Police force:	{{{Police}}}
Fire and rescue:	{{{Fire}}}
Ambulance:	South East Coast
Post office and telephone
Post town:	GRAVESEND
Postal district:	DA13
Dialling code:	01474
Politics
UK Parliament:
European Parliament:	South East England

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.

view • talk • edit  The town of Dartford in Kent, South East England with the surrounding suburbs, villages, towns and parishes :
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
The borough of Dartford List of places in Kent

southfleet takes its name form the river fleet which run up to southfleet, the water that supplied the river came from a place called springhead where there was watercress beds and oyseter beds the river then run on through ebbsfleet and then on to nnorthfleet