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Bluewater Shopping Centre (commonly referred to as Bluewater) is an out-of-town shopping centre in Stone (postally Greenhithe), Kent, England, just outside the M25 motorway ring, 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east south east of London's centre.
Rainham has a small shopping area, including the Rainham Shopping Centre precinct, with a few major shops. The precinct was built in the 1970s after the old church school building was demolished. The school originally opened in 1846 it was a community centre for the last few years of its life.
Rainham (/ ˈ r eɪ n ə m / RAY-nəm) is a suburb of East London, England, in the London Borough of Havering. [2] Historically an ancient parish in the county of Essex, Rainham is 13.6 miles (21.9 km) east of Charing Cross [2] and is surrounded by a residential area, which has grown from the historic village, to the north and a commercial area, fronting the River Thames, to the south.
Gillingham became an urban district under the Local Government Act 1894, gaining municipal borough status in 1903. [4] John Robert Featherby was the first mayor of the Borough of Gillingham. [5]
In the region distinction is made between shopping centers (shops under one roof), shopping precincts (pedestrianized zones of a town or city where many retail stores are located), [9] the High Street (street – pedestrianized or not – with a high concentration of retail shops), [10] and retail parks (usually out of the city centre, 5000 sq ...
Gillingham and Rainham is a constituency [n 1] in Kent represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2024 by Naushabah Khan of the Labour Party. [ 2 ] [ n 2 ] It was previously represented since its 2010 creation by Rehman Chishti of the Conservative Party and replaced the previous constituency of Gillingham .
The Lancastrian Hall had been closed a number of years before as a cost-cutting exercise. [6] The library closed on Saturday 27 June 2015 and reopened on 20 July a short distance away in the new Swinton Gateway building next to St. Peter's Church. Services. Adult fiction and non-fiction books; Art gallery; Bookshop; Children's book and tape packs
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