Ebbsfleet in Gravesham is to the south-west of Northfleet where a Channel Tunnel Rail Link station is currently being built and is due to open in 2007. During archaeological work undertaken at Ebbsfleet, before construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, an Anglo-Saxon mill and a Roman villa were found. Much of the land was previously owned by the APCM and later Blue Circle and latterly Lafarge . See Dartford International Railway Station
Ebbsfleet in Thanet is where Saint Augustine landed in 597 , to convert England to Christianity. The location of his landing would have been then on the Ebbsfleet peninsula, a spit of land into the former Wantsum Channel . There are prehistoric, Iron Age, Roman and Saxon settlement remains on the peninsula and focusing around Ebbsfleet Farm which may have also been the landing stage for the Roman ferry across the channel to Richborough from Thanet. Traditionally it is also the site of the landings made by the Saxons in the fifth century AD. An entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that Hengist And Horsa , on the invitation of Vortigern , King of the Britons, landed in 449 at ''Ypwines fleot'', usually assumed to be Ebbsfleet. This landing place is no longer suitable as a landing place due to silting of the surrounding coastline in the intervening centuries.
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet, The Right Reverend Andrew Burnham, is a Provincial Episcopal Visitor to the Province of Canterbury.
