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HOPE-POINT, a small headland in Cliffe parish, Kent; on the Thames, 6½ miles NE by E of Gravesend. A small battery was built on it in 1796; and one for 16 guns was built further up in 1865, for the defence of the river below Tilbury.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a small headland" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
Administrative units: | Cliffe CP/AP Kent AncC |
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