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Gravesend is 54 miles south of Cambridge. The origins of the church go back to when Edward IV granted a license for a chapel of ease for St Mary's at Heacham. St Mary's burned down in and was rebuilt, becoming the parish church in The 15th-century building burned down again in and a completely new church in Georgian style was erected in as part of the 'Commission for Building Fifty New Churches' scheme. The town was mentioned in the Domesday Book of when it was in the hands of Bishop Odo of Bayeux, half-brother of William the Conqueror.

The town grew up near the route of the old Roman road of Watling Street, linking London to the coast of southeastern Kent. Gravesend was granted a market charter in , and the market is still held today, which must make it one of the oldest in England.

The town was incorporated in the same year, when the first mayor was elected, though curiously Gravesend did not gain a town hall until The Elizabethan town hall, much altered, survives as the Magistrates Court and as a venue for both public and private events. Almost as important as the grant of a town charter was the Royal Charter of which allowed townsfolk to operate ferries to and from London.

The ferry service became known as the Long Ferry and was extremely popular as it avoided the perils of travel by road. Gravesend boasts not one but two historic piers. The oldest is Town Pier, built in and the oldest example of a cast-iron pier anywhere in the world. A restaurant and bar occupy the pier. The Royal Terrace Pier was erected just a decade later, in The tower was begun in to mark the golden anniversary of Queen Victoria's coronation.

The cost was an estimated pounds, which was raised by public subscription.