It gives its title to the Dartford Crossing of the River Thames, a pair of touring tunnels (1963 & 1980), & a Queen Elizabeth II Bridge (October 1991), linking Kent and Essex and linking sections of the M25 motorway.

When of May, 2005, Dartford's MP is Howard Stoate (Labour).

A todays borough was formed in 1 April 1974 by the merger of the old borough of Dartford, Swanscombe urban district, and a portion of Dartford Rural District. A parish councils employed in the image below as well came inside its authority.

Traditionally, a independent industries were papermaking, cement, & pharmaceutic.

Foolscap (or even like Fool's Cap' - from either the watermark of the son wearing a numskull's hat) paper was invented at a papermills within Dartford & was produced until a adoption of ISO standard A4 paper in the Seventies. High-quality chalk from either Swanscombe & Northfleet was utilized by Blue Circle for a production of Portland Cement until the prevent of the 20th century. Indeed, several properties in a areas use favorite covenants stating that any chalk below the properties is the property of Blue Circle Cement! Until the 21st century, Wellcome (in the future sectiin of Glaxo SmithKline) experienced the big production facility on Temple Hill & was a major employer in the area.

Sustaining the reduction around these traditional industries, Dartford has turn into a dormitory town for commuters to London.

The big locality of heathland - Dartford Heath - lies to the west of the town. These are a original front yard of the Dartford Warbler, a little bird. Northward of a town come a Dartford Salt Lakes, bordering the River Thames where Joyce Green Hospital once stood. Within August 1909 the Vickers Company, tentatively diversifying into aircraft production at nearby factories inside Bexleyheath, Crayford and Erith, began to create the rudimentary landing field at Joyce Green. The itinerant title in that online-lying front yard commemorates of these-sometime Dartford MP Bob Dunn.

There are 5 railroad station in the borough: at Stone; Greenhithe (for Bluewater); Swanscombe and Dartford, all on the North Kent Line; and Longfield and Farningham Road on the Victoria - Medway Towns line. From either Dartford there are deuce-ace lines serving London and one to Gravesend and beyond; for many services Dartford is the terminus. The recently high-high-velocity international railroad terminal is existence constructed at Ebbsfleet that should help commuters to London & Channel Tunnel passengers to Paris and Brussels by 2007.

a Parish Church, Holy Trinity, is placed on the american bank of the Flow of any stream Darent, in which a hermit would conduct traveler through the ford. A church was originally 9th-century Saxon however sustaining late Norman additions. In a 13th century the Royal Wedding was celebrated there, so the choristers come entitled to put on ruddy cassocks. One of a further interesting things in display inside a church occurs as brass plaque commemorating a operate of Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of steam propulsion, world health organization lived & worked in the town for the total of years. A memorial park is placed inside St Edmund's Pleasance on a summit of East Hill, which bring just about to the traditional rhyme about the population of Dartford existence '...interred above a spire'. the church actually has there are no spire: it has the tower featuring a ring of eight bells.

A oldest school around Dartford is 'A Grammar School', foundeFive hundred around 1576 by Sir Henry Havelock & William D'Aeth. Originally set around a market, the school moved to its todays location in West Datford in the 19th century. Peradventure its best known student was the certain Michael Jagger world health organization is currently commemorated per 'Mick Jagger Centre' for the performing arts, which was opened in the late 1990s.

A Dartford Symphony Orchestra has been rehearsing & performing within Dartford since 1946, & presently a age range of the members is from either 16 to 80. These are a orchestra's aim to provide an training & causing environment from either which all the players gain, & to bring high-quality polished performances of the globe's greatest music to my audiences.

A effect of the members' commitment occurs as regular year of symphony concerts promoted per DSO, which are then swell attended by audiences from either Dartford & a circumferent locality. A DSO is a resident orchestra at the Mick Jagger Centre for the Performing Arts, Shepherds Lane, Dartford, & has its have internet site.

Parishes and other villages within Dartford borough

Bean parish Darenth parish Dartford town Longfield and New Barn parish Southfleet parish Stone parish Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley parish Swanscombe and Greenhithe parish Wilmington parish Joydens Wood in Wilmington parish