Long Reach, Kent

Long Reach
Long Reach is located in Kent
Long Reach
Long Reach
Location within Kent
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townDARTFORD
Postcode districtDA1
Dialling code01322
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AmbulanceSouth East Coast
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51°28′27″N 0°13′00″E / 51.4743°N 0.2167°E / 51.4743; 0.2167

Long Reach is a low-lying area north of Dartford, Kent, in southeast England, on the south side of the River Thames, east of Erith and the River Darent. It was the site of a pub (the Long Reach Tavern), a fireworks factory, a smallpox hospital and, from 1911, a Vickers airfield that later became RAF Joyce Green. It also gives its name to a Thames Water sewage treatment works.

The area is named after the Long Reach (a name given to the longest straight stretch of a river), the stretch of the Thames between St Clement's Reach and Erith Rands.[1]

  1. ^ "Reaches of the River Thames". On the Thames. Retrieved 5 November 2021.