Within the town boundaries there are several distinct areas: the town centre around the parish church and along the High Street the Joyce Green area Temple Hill estate constructed in 1947 the Brent Fleet Downs as well as two important areas of open space and several industrial estates. Wilmington is contiguous with the town to the south whilst the almost continuous Thames Gateway development means that there is little to show the town boundary in an easterly direction. The Dartford Marshes to the north and the proximity of Crayford in the London Borough of Bexley to the west, mean that the town's growth is to the south and east. As a result, the town's main road pattern makes the shape of letter 'T'.
The higher land on which the town stands and through which the narrow Darent valley runs, consists of chalk surmounted by the Blackheath Beds of sand and gravel.Īs a human settlement, Dartford became established as a river crossing-point with the coming of the Romans and as a focal point between two routes: that from west to east being part of the main route connecting London with the Continent and the southerly route following the Darent valley.
The low-lying marsh to the north of the town consists of London Clay and the alluvium brought down by the two rivers-the Darent and the Cray-whose confluence is in this area. The quarry at Bluewater, showing the underlying chalkĭartford lies within the area known as the London Basin.
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