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Gravesend

[greyvz-end]

noun

  1. a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River: incorporated into Gravesham 1974.



Gravesend

/ ˌɡɪˈɛԻ /

noun

  1. a river port in SE England, in NW Kent on the Thames. Pop: 53 045 (2001)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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This week, it was announced that the Treasury would give £590m to the Lower Thames Crossing - a new tunnel under the estuary - which would link Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent.

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Constructing the Lower Thames Crossing, linking Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent, will cost an estimated £10bn.

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Police were called at 13:45 BST on Friday after concerns were raised for two children who had entered the river at Royal Pier Road in Gravesend.

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Barkan was running to represent a district gerrymandered to look like some garish Art Deco necklace: pastel-blue Bay Ridge in southwestern Brooklyn strung together with Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay to the east, two areas full of nominal Democrats who voted for Trump all three times he ran but never changed their party registration.

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They are expected to be dug east of Gravesend in Kent and to the west of East Tilbury in Essex.

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