• Gravesend Airport, located 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Gravesend town centre, Kent and 7.0 miles (11.3 km) west of Rochester. It was operated from...
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    Gravesend /ˌɡreɪvzˈɛnd/ is a town in northwest Kent, England, situated 21 miles (35 km) east-southeast of Charing Cross (central London) on the south...
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  • to Gravesend Airport in Kent, where it could build the Gull itself. Restructured in 1936, it became Percival Aircraft Ltd, and moved to Luton Airport. The...
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    Chalk, Kent (category Gravesend, Kent)
    15th century. Also within the parish was the one-time Gravesend Airport, opened as the Gravesend School of Flying in 1932, which during World War II became...
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    Amy Johnson (category Croydon Airport)
    1936, Johnson made her last record-breaking flight, starting from Gravesend Airport and regaining her Britain to South Africa record in G-ADZO, a Percival...
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    Gravesend Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street in Gravesend, Kent, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Gravesend Municipal...
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    Gloucestershire. In 1934 the Percival Aircraft Company moved to Gravesend Airport, Kent, where it built its own Gulls, with the last Gull built at Percival's...
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    class-record, which stood until 2009. He took off on 5 February 1939 from Gravesend Airport, landing at Wingfield Aerodrome at the Cape the next day, covering...
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    Viscount De L'Isle, at a memorial outside the former RAF Station Gravesend Airport, to commemorate "The Few" on the 70th Anniversary of the Battle of...
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    borough of Gravesham in Kent, England. The village lies south-east of Gravesend and just north-west of Strood, in Medway. The civil parish had a population...
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    Airfields. 2015. Retrieved 12 May 2015. "Guston Road". UK Airfields & Airports. Retrieved 13 January 2021. Laycock, Mike (2 February 2021). "MP fails...
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  • Essex Aero (category Gravesend, Kent)
    aircraft maintenance and component manufacturer, primarily based at Gravesend Airport in Kent, from 1936 to 1953. Founded by Jack Cross, it is most famous...
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    establishment of 12 guns, but the three troops were scattered between Gravesend Airport in Kent, RAF Kenley in Surrey and RAF Tangmere in Sussex; in July...
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    while Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells are built on sandstone. Dartford, Gravesend, the Medway towns, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Canterbury, Deal, and Dover...
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    Croydon and then moved on to RAF Middle Wallop and later RAF Gravesend (now Gravesend Airport). It subsequently served at RAF Kenley, south London, commanded...
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    been produced at Parnalls, Percival set up his own factory at London Gravesend Airport, Kent. Edgar Percival's aircraft were renowned for their graceful...
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    to Gravesend: Belvedere, Erith, Slade Green, Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe for Bluewater, Swanscombe, Ebbsfleet, Northfleet, and Gravesend. Network...
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    London Buses route SL7 (category Buses serving Heathrow Airport)
    late 1970s, route 726 was introduced as a variant, from Gravesend to Windsor via Heathrow Airport and Slough instead of Staines. By the 1980s, the sections...
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    2012. "Gravesend weather forecast". Met Office. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2014. "www.rochester-airport.co.uk"...
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  • Gatwick Airports Ltd No. 18 Elementary Flying Training School No. 20 Elementary and Reserve Flying Training School 1 October 1937 Gravesend 3 September...
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    Gravesend: in 1645, settled under Dutch patent by English followers of Anabaptist Deborah Moody, named for 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands, or Gravesend,...
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    loop at Gravesend Avenue (present-day McDonald Avenue) in Kensington heading north along Gravesend Avenue and joining the main line at Gravesend Avenue...
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    and the aviation industry. The inaugural flight into Rochester was from Gravesend, with John Parker flying their Short Scion, G-ACJI, powered by Pobjoy...
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    branch leaving their North Kent line at a point about (3.5 miles) from Gravesend ... to Stoke ... In the following year powers were obtained for an extension...
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    in present-day Brooklyn beginning in 1645. These included: Brooklyn, Gravesend, Flatlands, Flatbush, New Utrecht, and Bushwick. The Dutch had granted...
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    The region is home to Gatwick Airport, the UK's second-busiest airport, and Heathrow Airport (the UK's busiest airport) is located adjacent to the region's...
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    descends through Strood towards the river. During the descent, the road to Gravesend, the A226 joins. In Strood the High Street is bypassed by the one-way...
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    Elizabeth line (category Transport at Heathrow Airport)
    near Stratford; along the Great Western Main Line to Reading and Heathrow Airport in the west; and along the Great Eastern Main Line to Shenfield in the...
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    and continuing in a south-westerly direction along the road leading to Gravesend Beach and directly to the sea. With St. George: – Starting from the meeting...
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    Gloucestershire and flows into the North Sea near Tilbury, Essex and Gravesend, Kent, via the Thames Estuary. From the west, it flows through Oxford...
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