Dartford

Dartford, in Kent, situated twenty miles east of London with a population of around fifty thousand, has its origin, in pre Roman times, as a convenient fording point on the River Darent. Today Dartford's importance as a centre of communications has been emphasised by the completion in 1963 of the Dartford Tunnel, linking Kent and Essex via a one mile long tunnel under the Thames. The map below shows the features of the town of Dartford as it was in the mid twentieth century. Click on a selected area of the map below to see an enlargement.


 
 Dartford town map

Map of Dartford

Old map of the town of Dartford circa 1950

 
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Dartford Map

The maps on this website have been reproduced with the permission of Collins Bartholomew