Groups & Media

Group Visits

With a developing tourism offer, Gravesham is keen to encourage group visits and we tailor opportunities to meet individual group requirements. Ease of transport access from London and the South East of England make it an area relatively easy to explore.

Here are some ideas of visits that we can help to accommodate within the area. Please contact us for further information to help you plan your visit and to discuss your requirements. Guided tours for younger people also available. Telephone Gravesend's Visitor Information Centre on 01474 33 76 00 or email info@towncentric.co.uk.

Ideas for group visits include:

• Pocahontas Promenade of Gravesend's Heritage Riverside taking in St George's Church the final resting place of Pocahontas.
• General Gordon in Gravesham - taking in the life and influence of General Gordon of Khartoum in the area.
• Gravesend and Milton Cemetery - former Victorian pleasure gardens on the Register of English Heritage Historic Parks and Gardens.
• A Walk around Windmill Hill - a look at the properties and hear about some of the characters who used to reside in this fascinating part of the town.
• Gravesend's Secret Cold War bunker- an underground command post built in 1954 within Woodlands Park, originally known as Civil Defence Region 6.
• Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara - the largest single site Sikh temple complex in Europe.
• The Crossfire Trail - guided tour through Gravesend and Tilbury's military defence past, with visits to the Tilbury and New Tavern Forts.
• Cobham Village Heritage Experience - walking tour of Gravesham's most historic village, church and Cobham College.
• Cobham Hall - one of the finest houses in Kent, set within the 50 acres of grounds of Cobham Park, laid out by the famous landscape architect Sir Humphry Repton, with harmonizing buildings within the landscape, including the internationally important Darnley Mausoleum. 
• Gad's Hill Place - A unique opportunity to visit the former home of Charles Dickens at Higham.
  

Filming in Gravesham

Gravesham works closely with the Kent Film Office to assist those seeking to film in the area and we are committed to dealing with filming requests as straightforward as possible. Excellent road and high speed train links into London mean that Gravesham is within ease of reach from many of the South East's film studios.

Remarkable views over the River Thames, attractive countryside and parks, historic properties, expansive and ‘gritty' industrial areas and large warehouse premises lend themselves as locations for a range of filming opportunities. Films such as Wild Child (2008), Incendiary (2008), the BBC's Canterbury Tales (2003) and Bleak House (2005) and more recently Age of Heroes (2011) and The Island (2011) have been filmed in the area.

We are happy to assist productions interested in filming in the Borough and can often help filmmakers find publicly or privately owned or managed locations that meet your requirements. If you need assistance with sourcing a location, please contact Gravesham Borough Council Economic Development on 01474 33 73 38.