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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Grove Ferry like this:
GROVE FERRY, a hamlet in Chislet parish, Kent; on the river Stour, and on the Ashford and Ramsgate railway, 6 miles NE by E of Canterbury. It has a station With telegraph on the railway; and is noted for its strawberry gardens.
Grove Ferry is now part of CANTERBURY District. Click here for graphs and data of how CANTERBURY has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Grove Ferry itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Grove Ferry, in Canterbury and Kent | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/25098
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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