Rosherville Gardens

Pleasure garden in Kent, England, 1837–1913 Rosherville GardensKent Zoological and Botanical Gardens InstitutionColour engraving of Rosherville Gardens, 1841Interactive map of Rosherville GardensTypePleasure gardens (defunct)LocationNorthfleet, Kent, EnglandArea17 acres (6.9 ha)Opened1837Closed1913DesignerGeorge JonesStatusClosed and largely cleared; surviving features Grade II listedPublic transitGravesend West railway station (from 1886) Rosherville Gardens was a 19th-century pleasure garden in a disused chalk pit in Northfleet, Kent, England. It was laid out in 1837 and finally closed to the public in 1913, just before World War I. Structures currently still surviving at Rosherville Gardens are a Grade II-listed bear pit, a Grade II-listed clifftop entrance and tunnelled stairway through the cliff, a hermit cave in a chalk grotto, an Italian garden central feature which also formed part of the Broadwalk, and the Grade II-listed Enigmatic Cavern, drawdock and quay which was the river entrance to the gardens. The gardens The gardens were laid out in 1837 by George Jones (a businessman from Islington in north London) in one of the disused chalk pits in Northfleet, covering an are