GRAVESHAM

Borough of Gravesham
Gravesham ''Shown within Kent''
Geography
Status:	Borough
Region:	South East England
Admin. County:	Kent
Area: - Total	Ranked 245th 99.02 km²
Admin. HQ:	Gravesend
ONS code:	29UG
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	89.5% White 8.2% S.Asian
Politics
Arms of Gravesham Borough Council Gravesham Borough Council http://www.gravesham.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MP:	Adam Holloway

'Gravesham' is a local government district and borough in Kent, England. Its council is based in Gravesend. It corresponds closely to the Gravesham constituency.

Contents

The name 'Gravesham'

Composition of Gravesham

External links

The name 'Gravesham'

Robert H Hiscock, Chairman of the Gravesend Historical Society, in the foreword to his book, 'A History of Gravesend' (Phillimore, 1976) wrote:
:"The name Gravesham appears only in the Domesday Book, 1086, and was probably the error of a Norman scribe. It was 'Gravesend' in the Domesday Monarchorum c.1100, and 'Gravesende' in the Textus Roffensis c.1100. It is strange that this 'clerical error' has now been adopted for the name of the new Council".

Composition of Gravesham

As well as the parishes listed below, the area of the former urban district of Northfleet was also included in the borough when it was formed in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a successor to the Gravesend municipal borough, Northfleet urban district, and part of Strood Rural District.
There are 18 wards in the Borough; as well as those serving Gravesend town (Central, Pelham, Riverside, Singlewell, Whitehill, Woodlands) and Northfleet (2 wards, North & South), there are those for the larger estates (Coldharbour, Istead Rise, Painters Ash, Riverview, Westcourt). Outlying villages are served by the following wards:

★ Chalk

★ Higham

★ Meopham: 2 wards North & South

★ Shorne, Cobham & Luddesdowne

★ Vigo is part of the Meopham South ward

External links

★ www.about-gravesend.co.uk - Pictures and info of Gravesend from the past and present. The new pictures were taken from as near as possible the same vantage point as in the old ones.

★ Gravesham council website