Ebbsfleet

Ebbsfleet is the name of two locations in the English county of Kent.

Ebbsfleet (west of the Ebbsfleet stream) is in The Borough of Dartford. East of the stream, Ebbsfleet is in the Borough of Gravesham. The entire Ebbsfleet valley lies south-west of Northfleet where a Channel Tunnel Rail Link station is currently being built and is due to open in 2007. During archaeological work undertaken at Ebbsfleet, before construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, an Anglo-Saxon mill and a Roman villa were found. Much of the land was previously owned by the APCM and later Blue Circle and latterly Lafarge. See Ebbsfleet International railway station.

Ebbsfleet in Thanet is where Saint Augustine landed in 597, to convert England to Christianity. The location of his landing would have been then on the Ebbsfleet peninsula, a spit of land into the former Wantsum Channel. There are prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement remains on the peninsula and focusing around Ebbsfleet Farm which may have also been the landing stage for the Roman ferry across the channel to Richborough from Thanet. Traditionally it is also the site of the landings made by the Saxons in the fifth century AD. An entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that Hengist and Horsa, on the invitation of Vortigern, King of the Britons, landed in 449 at Ypwines fleot, usually assumed to be Ebbsfleet. This landing place is no longer suitable as a landing place due to silting of the surrounding coastline in the intervening centuries.

Ebbsfleet is also a suffragan bishopric of the Diocese of Canterbury, named after Ebbsfleet in Thanet and created in 1994 to provide a provincial episcopal visitor for the Province of Canterbury. As of 2006, the present Bishop of Ebbsfleet is the Right Reverend Andrew Burnham, SSC.

view • talk • edit</span> 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
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view • talk • edit</span> The district of Thanet in Kent, South East England with its suburbs, villages, towns and parishes:
Acol • Birchington-on-Sea • Broadstairs • Cliffsend • Cliftonville • Ebbsfleet • Isle of Thanet • Manston • Margate • Minster • Monkton • Newington • Palm Bay • Ramsgate • Sarre • St Nicholas at Wade • St Peter's • Westbrook • Westgate-on-Sea
List of places in Kent