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Graves·end

 (grāvz′ĕnd′)
A town of southeast England on the Thames River east of London. Is is known as "the Gateway to the Port of London." Pocahontas is buried here.
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Gravesend

(ˌɡreɪvzˈɛnd)
n
(Placename) a river port in SE England, in NW Kent on the Thames. Pop: 53 045 (2001)
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Graves•end

(ˌgreɪvzˈɛnd)

n.
a seaport in NW Kent, in SE England, on the Thames River. 94,300.
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" The pensioner was born in Gravesend, Kent, in 1911.
Mobile Mini, which has its head office in Stockton, is opening its new branch, the company's largest yet, close to London in Gravesend, Kent, following the merger of its existing Gravesend branch with its former branch in South Ockendon, Essex.
Choking back tears, husband Erwin, 54, of Gravesend, Kent, pleaded: "These kinds of beasts are different, you do not let them out into society they must stay locked up.
Kent Police stopped a car in Springhead Road, Gravesend, Kent, at about 4.30pm last Thursday and discovered a suitcase containing around 10 kilos of heroin in the boot.
Inderjit Singh Dhesi, 31, and Paramjit Johal, 51, both from Oldbury, West Midlands, and Paramjit Singh, 46, from Gravesend, Kent, were all found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for 13 years each.
Prosecutor Jason Cross said Duffy had committed the offences when working and living in Gravesend, Kent.
Dope smoker Armstrong of Gravesend, Kent, had approached them in the street and asked: "Do you want to have sex with me?"
Rajwinder Singh Dhami, aged 35, of Gravesend, Kent, appeared at Coventry Crown Court yesterday on 27 counts of sex offence charges.
Specialist radar equipment was used to locate Flight Sergeant Eric Williams and his Hawker Hurricane beneath an industrial unit in Gravesend, Kent.
Gilleeney, of Gravesend, Kent, was given a 13-year jail sentence after admitting two counts of conspiring to supply cocaine, conspiring to launder money and conspiring to convert criminal property.
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