Gravesend was granted, allowing the men of the town to operate boats between London and the town; these became known as the "Long Ferry". It became the preferred form of passage, because of the perils of road travel (see below). On Gravesend's river front are the remains of a Tudor fort built by command of King Henry VIII in 1543. On 21 March 1617, John Rolfe and Rebecca (aka Princess Pocahontas) with their two-year-old son, Thomas, boarded a ship in London bound for the Commonwealth of Virginia; the ship had only sailed as far as Gravesend before Rebecca fell fatally ill,
Milton-next-Gravesend Hodson, a treble was added in 1810 (cast by Thomas Mears II) and the ring was augmented to 8 by two new trebles in 1930 (cast by Mears & Stainbank). The tenor is just under , tuned to F#. Milton Church - Official website for the Church of England ecclesiastical parish of Milton-next-Gravesend miltonchurch.org.uk Milton-next-Gravesend Milton-next-Gravesend is an ecclesiastical parish in the north-west of Kent, England. Feudal ownership of land in the parish was the subject of a legal action of 1076, Abbot Scotland v Hamo the Sherrif, seeing St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury take back its stake in ownership. Neighbouring