Greenhithe, Kent

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Greenhithe is a suburban area in Swanscombe, Kent

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Greenhithe within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Greenhithe in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Greenhithe, eccl. dist. and vil. with ry. sta., Swanscombe and Stone-near-Dartford pars., W. Kent -- dist., pop. 1870; vil., on river Thames, 2½ miles NE. of Dartford; P.O., T.O.; has a small pier, and carries on limemaking from its chalk quarries. From Greenhithe the fatal expedition of Franklin and Crozier in the Erebus and Terror sailed, June 19,1845.

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