Ingress Abbey

Ingress Abbey, on the banks of the Thames in Greenhithe, was built in 1833 for a wealthy lawyer named James Harmer. He also gave his architect, Charles Moreing, £120000 for the construction of follies, grottoes and hermits caves. These can still be seen in the surrounding country park, including one that is in a tunnel that runs under the Fastback bus road

The estate has been redeveloped with modern housing since 2001 when the developers spent £6m restoring the abbey and other aforementioned buildings.
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Fast forward to the present day, and the current owners of the 47 room abbey lead a celebrity lifestyle and have been featured on TV and in the media. They bought it in 2012 and converted it back into a family home. In May 2016 the Abbey became an official honorary consulate of the Republic of Lithuania.

My extra shows the stretch of the Thames from the footpath at Ingress park looking towards Dartford Bridge (QE2 bridge). We had a bracing walk today along a section of the Thames Path at Swanscombe Peninsula. Apparently there is a proposal to build a £2bn theme park on this marshland which will be an ecological disaster.