The boundary marks today: Obelisk at Gravesend

Status: Extant
Type: -
National grid reference: TQ6551674281
Location: NW of the Thames and Medway Canal Basin
Location map at Streetmap: TQ6551674281
Original 19th century parish: Milton-next-Gravesend
Depicted on first edition of OS 6" map as: [not marked]
Moved: Yes
Circumstances of move: Moved to act as a memorial commemorating the gift to the Corporation of Gravesend of the pleasure ground and foreshore by C M Arnold Esq, Mayor 1890-1893. See Benson's A history of Gravesend; or, A historical perambulation of Gravesend and Northfleet.
New national grid reference: TQ6540774116
New location: At SE corner of Gordon Gardens, near to the gate at the junction of Ordnance Road, Khartoum Place, and Canal Road
Map of new location at Streetmap: TQ6540774116
Locality: Gravesend
Access: When gardens open to public
Listed building: Grade II
Local authority: Gravesham
Last seen: 15/03/2010
Date missing: n/a
Notes: Originally erected in 1826 to replace a tree which formerly marked boundary (see Cruden's The history of the town of Gravesend in the county of Kent, and of the port of London pp 36-37). The obelisk has no inscription relating to the coal duties or to the Port of London, only a plaque on the plinth recording the gift of Gordon Gardens to the town.

Additional photographs of obelisk at Gravesend:

Plaque on obelisk
at Gravesend in 2010

Former site of obelisk
at Gravesend in 2010

Page created by Martin Nail: Contact me. Last revised 8th April 2010

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