gravesend ?

[anneasquith]

anyone know the origin of this cities name. tia

[berniecuddles]

The town is recorded as Gravesham in the Domesday Book in 1086 as belonging to Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and called "Gravesham": a name probably derived from "graaf-ham": the home of the Reeve, or Bailiff, of the Lord of the Manor. Another theory suggests that the name Gravesham may be a corruption of the words grafs-ham — a place "at the end of the grove". Myth has it that Gravesend got its name because, during the outbreak of Bubonic Plague in the 1600s.
by the way i live right near gravesend

[marval]

I Googled and found this.

http://www.kentfind.c...gravesend/history.php

[pmahone111]

http://en.wikipedia.o...vesend,_Kent#Toponymy

[boxtops]

..and bernie, the old name lives on, Dartford & Gravesham.