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Milton, Gravesend — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Milton-next-Gravesend is a parish inside the Gravesend built-up area of Gravesham, Kent, holding Milton Chantry and New Tavern Fort.
About Milton
Where to stay in Milton
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
The choice in Milton runs between the New Tavern Fort side of the parish and the Gravesend streets around 81 High Street, where the town keeps most of its rooms. Beds cluster in Gravesend. Milton Chantry, New Tavern Fort and Gravesham Museum sit close together, so a single base in Gravesend covers the parish and the town beside it.
You want the parish itself if Christ Church Milton or the Bat and Ball Ground draws you.
About Milton
What are the main landmarks in Milton?
New Tavern Fort and Milton Chantry are the two monuments recorded for the parish, the first a fortification and the second a chantry building whose name repeats that of Milton itself. Churches make up three more. Christ Church Milton and the Church of St Peter and St Paul stand within Milton, while St George's Church, Gravesend serves the town around it.
Gravesham Museum holds the collection. Bat and Ball Ground is the sporting venue, and Thames House, Tivoli House, The Mission House, 81 High Street and the Statue of Elizabeth II fill out the listed record.
What is the history of Milton?
Milton is an ecclesiastical parish that kept its own name as the Gravesend built-up area absorbed it, and the compound form Milton-next-Gravesend records that older standing. Milton Chantry carries the parish name. New Tavern Fort marks the military side of the record, and the Church of St Peter and St Paul with St George's Church, Gravesend mark the ecclesiastical one.
Christ Church Milton takes the parish name too. Gravesham Museum, in the district that gives Milton its administrative frame, keeps the account of town and parish alike within Kent.
Where is Milton?
The parish lies within the Gravesend built-up area, in the Gravesham district of Kent, with Bat and Ball Ground and Christ Church Milton on its streets.
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Updated September 2026