Cliff Top Entrance to Rosherville Gardens - Northfleet Landmark

Cliff Top Entrance to Rosherville Gardens - Northfleet Landmark This platform appears in one of the most iconic images of the London Road entrance to Rosherville Gardens.

This cliff top entrance is the only remaining structure of a pleasure garden, Rosherville Gardens, laid out in 1837 and surviving until 1914. The gardens were built on an excavated chalk pit, owned by Jeremiah Rosher (1765-1848) who saw the potential of chalk excavation by the Thames at Northfleet in the manufacture of cement. From 1830 Rosher also started building a new town, called Rosherville,

taking advantage of Gravesend's popularity with Londoners visiting for the day by steamboat along the River Thames. The architect H E Kendall was employed to lay out an esplanade and build a hotel and by 1837 the quay walls were built with a wooden pier. Although the Rosherville Hotel and a few Italianate style houses were built the new town did not develop further.

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