Rosherville Gardens

Colour engraving of Rosherville Gardens, 1841

Rosherville Gardens was a 19th-century pleasure garden in a disused chalk pit in Northfleet, Kent, England. After being laid out in 1837, it stood for seventy years, and was finally closed to the public just before the First World War.[1]

Structures currently still surviving at Rosherville Gardens are a Grade II-listed[2] bear pit, a Grade II-listed clifftop entrance and tunnelled stairway through the cliff, a hermit cave in a chalk grotto, an Italian garden central feature which also formed part of the Broadwalk, and the Grade II-listed Enigmatic Cavern, drawdock and quay which was the river entrance to the gardens.

  1. ^ "Rosherville Gardens | Discover Gravesham". www.discovergravesham.co.uk. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  2. ^ "Listed status for Rosherville Gardens bear pit". BBC News. 22 January 2014.