Exterior shots of guests arriving for the funeral were filmed in Thurrock, Essex overlooking the River Thames with the backdrop of the Dartford River Crossing and at stately homes in Bedfordshire ( Luton Hoo for wedding two reception ) and Hampshire.

To the east of London, the Dartford Crossing of the Thames between Thurrock and Dartford is the lesser grade A282 ; the Crossing, which consists of two tunnels and the QE2 ( Queen Elizabeth II ) bridge, is named Canterbury Way.

Congestion charging systems do operate in the cities of London and Durham and on the Dartford Crossing.

The Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing, Dartford River Crossing ( DRC ) ( or simply the Dartford Crossing ) is a major road crossing of the River Thames in England, connecting Dartford in the south to Thurrock in the north, via two road tunnels and the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge.

The Lower Thames Crossing is a tentative proposal for a crossing, most likely a tunnel, to the east of the Dartford crossing.

Annual traffic levels across the Dartford Crossing

In an early example of a Private Finance Initiative ( PFI ), under the Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988 control of the crossing passed from Kent and Essex county councils to Dartford River Crossing Limited in 1988, who would fund the construction of the QEII bridge and take on the remaining debt from construction of the tunnels.

On the 13th of September 2009 the contractors of the Dartford River Crossing ( Le Crossing ) changed to Connect Plus M25, which again is made up of a consortium of Atkins, Egis, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty.

Although the DART-Tag device is free and available to anyone, the tag remains the property of the Dartford Crossing and if lost / stolen or damaged would be charged for.

Because the river bends from west to north nearby at Greenhithe, the rail tunnel goes from east to west while the Dartford Crossing tunnels go from north to south.

Since 2003, there has been a public bus service through the Dartford Crossing ; the X80 provided by Ensignbus, which links Thurrock with Bluewater.

* Dartford River Crossing website

Belvedere railway station, opened in 1859, is in Lower Belvedere and is served by the North Kent Line which runs from Cannon Street ( London ) to Dartford / Gravesend / Gillingham ( Kent ).

* Road: Shoreham stood on the turnpike which ran from Dartford to Sevenoaks, opened between 1750-1780.

In 2007 Dartford saw an increase in the number of visible household brands in its environs as B & Q, M & S Simply Food, TK Maxx and Asda Living opened new outlet stores in the town centre.

Dartford is perhaps most well known for the latter, the main mode of crossing the River Thames to the east of London, where the southbound A282 ( part of the London Orbital ) crosses the river via the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge toll bridge, opened in 1991.

Later two more lines were built, the Dartford Loop Line through Sidcup which opened in 1866, and the Bexleyheath Line which opened in 1895.

The Dartford Loop Line opened on 1 September 1866.

Hither Green finally opened in 1895 serving both the Dartford Loop Line and the main line via Tonbridge.

New Eltham station was opened as Pope Street Station in April 1878, twelve years after the opening of the Dartford Loop Line.

Sidcup station opened in October 1866 shortly after the opening of the Dartford Loop Line.

Unlike other major bridges, the traffic disruption that this causes can be mitigated in part by the diversion of traffic through one of the Dartford tunnels which were in place before the bridge opened.

The name Albany Park was given to the area when its local station on the Dartford Loop Line was opened on 7 July 1935, following the building of a new housing estate nearby.

In 1899 the Lee Spur, a single track link between the up line of the Dartford Loop Line and the Hither Green goods yards, was built.

* at North Woolwich passengers could cross the Thames via the Woolwich foot tunnel or the free ferry to Woolwich Arsenal station for connections on the North Kent line to Medway Towns, Gravesend, Dartford, Sidcup, Abbey Wood, Blackheath, Lewisham, Greenwich and Central London

East of the station, the Dartford line goes through a tunnel underneath the grounds of the National Maritime Museum, towards Maze Hill.

The Dartford Cable Tunnel is a £ 11, 000, 000 tunnel upstream of the Dartford Crossing built in 2003-4.

This gives access to the Channel Tunnel and cross channel ferries as well as road and rail links to London the M25 motorway, Dartford bridge / tunnel, Blackwall tunnel and the rest of Britain.

MHA designed a road tunnel at Dartford and supervised the construction of its pilot tunnel beneath the Thames, but preparations for construction of the full-size tunnel were stopped in 1931 due to economic difficulties.

Further commissions for road tunnels were received for the revitalised Dartford tunnel in 1956, Mersey Kingsway tunnel in 1966, Blackwall southbound tunnel in 1967, second Dartford tunnel in 1972, and the Hatfield, Bell Common, Holmesdale and Penmaenbach tunnels in the 1980s.

Before the opening of the Dartford Tunnel in 1963, the Blackwall Tunnel was the easternmost Thames crossing for vehicles, excluding ferries.

The first was soon after the Committee's formation, in 1963, when 16 species were removed: Red-crested Pochard, Snow Goose, Pectoral Sandpiper, Mediterranean Gull, Sabine's Gull, Melodious Warbler, Icterine Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, Northern Goshawk, Golden Eagle, Red Kite, Kentish Plover, Crested Tit, Bearded Tit, Marsh Warbler and Dartford Warbler.

Profession in Dartford Priory seems, then, to have been made based on personal commitment, and one's personal association with God.

He spent the last 15 years of his life in mental hospitals, first for a short period at Barnwood House in Gloucester, and then at the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford, where he was diagnosed as suffering from " delusional insanity ( systematised )".

The station allows passengers to board west-bound trains to Greenwich and Deptford and then on to central London, and east-bound trains towards Dartford and north Kent.

It then turns east through Crayford and Barnes Cray before joining the Darent, which flows northwards into the River Thames between Crayford Marshes and Dartford Marshes.

Fed by springs in the greensand hills south of Westerham in Kent and below Limpsfield Chart in Surrey it flows for eastwards and then northwards past the villages of Otford and Shoreham, past the castle and ruined Roman villa at Lullingstone, past Eynsford, Farningham, Horton Kirby, South Darenth, Sutton-at-Hone, Darenth, and through the large town of Dartford.

However in 1559 visitors from the Privy Council came to Dartford and tendered the oaths of supremacy and uniformity, first to the provincial prior, and then to each of the nuns separately.

He was brought up in Kent, where his father became rector of Dartford in 1857 and then of Aldington in 1868.

Three kilometres to the north, the A2 is an eight lane dual carriageway leading west into London and north via the M25 London orbital, the Dartford Tunnel and Queen Elizabeth II Bridge to the M11 and M1 motorways.

The Dartford Southern by-pass, which relieved chronic congestion on the old route through Dartford ( along what is now the A207 ) provided considerable local employment during the Post – World War I recession.

Construction of the main line provided the opportunity to build an improved route to Dartford from Hither Green via Sidcup.

It is likely that Dartford, as the foremost Kent club in this period, provided not only the venue but also the nucleus of the team, while the Surrey team would have been drawn from a number of Surrey parishes and subscribed by their patron.