other two schools and other development. The New Barn development at the top of the hill is clearly visible from Longfield School grounds, while Longfield School and the main village in the valley below is visible from the end of Pescot Avenue. If one continues along Main Road one comes to the separate village of Longfield Hill, which is on rising ground and in effect closes this end of the valley. Here also the road and railway cross at the extreme eastern end of the Parish. Longfield Hill itself is an attractive small village with a village green, public house, one or two shops and a Mission Church. The main access to the New Barn development is New Barn Road which runs up the escarpment and through the middle of New Barn. It then runs on to the end of the main New Barn development and comes to the long ribbon of mainly larger properties which the Ratepayers Association wanted added to the New Barn unification scheme, but remains in Southfleet parish. Here one is over the hill and the land and the road falls away to the Thames estuary and one has a very broad vista lying before one over parts of Northfleet and Swanscombe to the River, with the development of Istead Rise on a separate hill in the right foreground; there are a number of tall chimneys prominent in the landscape. The road continues down through the edge of the Parish of Southfleet into Northfleet and Gravesend. The ex-Gravesham part of New Barn lies along the east side of New Barn and is at much the same level as Longfield Hill. Notes External links Villages in Kent Borough of Dartford