Rochester United F.C. For the 2014-15 season the club changed its name from Fleet Leaisure to Gravesham Borough. The 2016–17 season saw the club enter the FA Cup for the first time in their history when they entered the competition in the preliminary qualification round. They folded prior to the 2018–19 season after being unable to raise the funding required to continue playing. The club name has been continued by Gravesham Borough Youth Football Club. Gravesham Borough Football Club Gravesham Borough F.C. were a non-League football team who played in the Southern Counties East Football League. The team was originally based at Nelson Road, then groundshared with Chatham Town F.C. Northfleet Urban Country Park Northfleet Urban Country Park sits on the eastern side of Northfleet, on Thames Way opposite the new police station, bounded by Springhead Road & Vale Road. The site is 10.5 hectares and provides a variety of wildlife habitats. Notable people from Northfleet Stan Aldous (19231995), football player. Cyril Beldam (18691940), cricket player. Hilda Braid (19292007), actress. Arthur Gouge (18901962), aircraft engineer. Arthur Greenslade (19232003), arranger and conductor. Simon Hinks (born 1960), cricket player. Thomas Pitcher (1745-1837), shipbuilder William Charles John Pitcher, (18581925), theatre costume and scenery designer. Richard Southwood (19312005), zoologist. Thomas Sturge (1786-1866), merchant and cement manufacturer References Hiscock, Robert H (1796) A History of Gravesend, Phillimore. Lewis, Samuel (1831) A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions; Illustrated by Maps of the Different Counties and Islands; a Map of England ... and a Plan of London and Its Environs ... :in Four Volumes. (Lewis) Jessup, Frank W. (1966) Kent History Illustrated, Kent County Council. External links Northfleet Harbour Restoration Trust – information about Northfleet's ancient harbour Northfleet History Group – open to those with an interest in Northfleet's history Details of the Northfleet cement works Towns in Kent Port of London Populated places on the River Thames Unparished areas in Kent