Northfleet Urban Country Park

Northfleet Urban Country Park is in Northfleet, in Kent, England. The site is arrive incorporated by Springhead Road, Thames Way, west of Vale Road and the railroad. The site is claimed by and overseen by Gravesham Borough Council. The site was utilized cultivating until the 1940s, when it was utilized as a chalk pit. This went down to around 8-10m profound. On 7 May 1957, arranging was given for a decline tip on the site, and on 10 December 1992, landfill gas venting trenches were introduced.

Gravesend Council allowed the arrangement of a urban nation stop containing a lake, forests, glades, wetlands and trim trail, play territory and toilets region in August 1996. The site was arranged with the bringing in of 130,000 m³ of cleaned topsoil, to raise the level of the land somewhere in the range of two and four meters. New reemerged pathway and cycle courses were then developed on the 2 leveled land. Later the site was additionally arranged by broad local tree, bush and wildflower plantings, making different untamed life natural surroundings including a wetland swale.