Gravesend
Americannoun
noun
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Three ships—the Bona Speranza, the Edward Bonaventure, and the Bona Confidentia—set out from Gravesend, England seeking “discoverie of new trades northe warde” in Russia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Merseyside Police said the 37-year-old, from Gravesend in Kent, had been charged with disrupting a person engaged in a lawful activity.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2025
She said: "I have nightmares, I wake up crying, I can't go into certain spaces in Gravesend, and I can't see the street name without being sick, I struggle enormously."
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
The project, which will link Tilbury in Essex and Gravesend in Kent with two tunnels, is the first infrastructure scheme where a lead environmental regulator will be appointed.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
He’d walk back to Gravesend himself if that was what it took.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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