The name Shorne derives from the Saxon word “Scora” meaning a steep slope, and for the most part aptly describes the situation of Shorne Parish as it hugs the slope of the hill lying halfway between the town of Gravesend and the City of Rochester upon Medway on the North Downs, Kent.

  With its three thousand or so acres the southern boundary of the parish is divided from its neighbouring parish Cobham by the A2 main road and extends for some two miles from Park Pale in the east to Clay Lane Woods in the west.

The easterly boundary separating Shorne from Higham follows a generally northerly direction until it reaches the Thames, a distance of some three miles as the crow flies whilst the north-west boundary between Shorne and Chalk follows a north easterly direction incorporating a few of the streets from the Gravesend Riverview Estate until it also reaches the Thames.

                                                                                                                          View across Shorne, Summer 2010