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Skateboarding Spots in Gravesend, Kent*

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  • Whats point, chavs just steal em! Don't buy boards!
  • Down Lord street car park is a good place to skate.
  • i like skater boys, bigup cain shelly and harry siggers.
  • Well cascades is our nearest skate park! AND THERE NEEDS TO BE ANOTHER ONE!
  • Unit 1 skatepark in nearby rochester
  • Waterdales... behind the new police station has 3 qp's a few grind poles etc, outside cascades is good as well. Lord street car parks okay, but one of the best car parks is the one behind the train station. Good for beginers, and has two hills and things you can caveman off of.
  • baz, i last saw dan medley at sk8 off in hastings. he was so zick but i neva got chanc to meet him and is local!! any one friends of him or know of his whereabouts??? his vanished and gravesends even kent has gone quite with out the sound of ollie pop. medderz if u read this - get in touch dave clin. 07811861776 ps nxt comp hope to see u there
  • Great new spot in dartford. Dunno where but it's around =]
  • i used to read rad after bmx action bike and skate down at gillingham
  • woodvilles , only you get kicked out, no skateboardin near the prom, and blue circle
  • signits
  • Top of marling way.. Near the pub - The boat infront of all the shops. There are steps and metal seats you can grind along. Alot of people skate around there.
  • outside woodville halls
  • look out for a dude called dan medley, coz he is the dogs bollox on a boards at the momment, he last 360 flipped the three daws 7 set, and kickfip bs noseslid the rail there, awesom, dus n e 1 know him???? he ripz, baz
  • there is an ever progressing spot behind leading edge labels near asda...at the moment there is a hudge log good to grind ,carved banks, flat car parks and a couple of walls to plant.....all good... only a couple of people seem to ride there at the mo.....
  • Behind lidl is awesome for skating and BMXing. Make sue r to go on a sunday to avoid being kick out
  • Front of Woodville Halls is great for skating... although it's banned, screw that.
  • der r no skateboard places in gravesend cz pikeys wud smash em all up! big up d denton boyz!
  • cascades
  • the new farmacy was ok till they re-arranged it. bad rails on the riverfront (between the 3 daws and the clarendon), the clarence veterans club, and by the bog roll factory (by the lion). singlewell skool has a sick hedge gap, but dartford rules in general
  • Some good ledges around, and the proms always a gd spot. despite numerous chavs.
  • Anglesea Carp Park with the really long waxed curb has always been really cool and so was the Travel Inn Car Park.
  • Hey ppl just2 let you no now bluewater has opend they have sum pretty kool skate shops well free spirt does sum wid boards n ste up.Also if u bunk the train 2 rochester they have sum wkd grnger skate shops wid wkd clothes like c.d bagges n s**t
  • gravesend swimming pool rocked 4 skating back in the days
  • The legendary cascades vert ramp has been pulled down now but theres a "W ramp" next to northfleet leisure centre by perry street. Theres also a new outdoor skate park in "the wreck" behind a road called walterdales (also in northfleet). Its pretty small with a few quater pipes and grind boxes but theres dirt jumps there aswel now. The best places for street are woodville halls and blue circle cement works (by the river)
  • Easily the best spot for extreame sports especially for my sport (BMXing) has got to be the flatbanks in blue circle cement works.
  • Alleys. Steve woz ere
  • cygnets(small ramp),they took one at cascades down didnt they?just get train 2 maidstone
  • There are usually Skaters by the Woodville halls or in the carparks.
  • woodies....
  • Lord Street Carpark
  • cygnets
  • BEHIND THE OLD TEMPO NEAR ASDA THERE IS LIKE TWO FLATBANKS PUT TOGETHER TO MAKE A KIND OF FLATBANK MINI RAMP THATS MADE OUT OF CONCRETE,DONT FALL OFF OTHER WISE UR BOARD GOES IN THE RIVER .. ANGLESEY CENTER CARPARK HAS A 15FT LONG CURB THAT SHOULD BE GREY BUT HAS BEEN WAXED SO MUCH ITS BLACK .. AND THE BEST PLACE OF ALL BLUE CIRCLE CEMENT WORKS,ITS A BIT OF A TRECK BECAUSE ITS ON THE OUT SKIRTS OF NORTHFLEET BUT ITS WORTH THE TRECK,SOME SWEET STAIRS,HIGH LEDGES, LONG CURBS,UGE PIPES (TO GRIND),NICE POLES AND SOME TOTALY MEAN FLATBANKS, BUT ONLY GO ON A SUNDAY OTHER WISE THEY CALL THE POLICE ON YOU, BUT DONT WORY ITS SHUTIN DOWN SOON.
  • right anyone that goes gravsend to skate should go to anglsea car park there is a 20m long waxed curb on th 2nd floor security let you skate the curb after 7:30pm you can skate the whole carpark there are ushally people skating there all the time. gravsend market is a good spot it has a few leges and manual gaps to be done tempo, if you go behing tempo in the industrial area there are two large not to steep bnks with leges eather side. just skate round gravsend and youl'l find something me and my freinds skate everywhere. shouts to every gravsend skater dan,harvey,chis,dave norris and the rest of you orrible lot peice and respect louis.
  • Cascades Half-pipe section is the only one I Know
  • anglsea car park entrance on th left a lane for bikes to be parked but the kerb there is as waxed as hell!! watch out for a kid called Louis he rips
  • My mate ning-o-the-nong is pretty good on a skateboard - mind you he's even better at grass bowls!
  • just next to woodlands park theres the restraunt beefeater which has a cool launch ramp thing anglsea car park next to tesco has some cool waxed curbs on the second floor where the motorbikes park. police station has some smooth banks not to steep cool for bank tricks.
  • the skeate ramp @ cascades, and the indusreial estate near the red lion
  • Woodville Halls
  • Cascades has got a skateboard ramp
  • Lord Street carpark when its raining, waxed curbs etc. IceLand rails used to be good, dunno if they are still there now. Loading bay behind St Georges center. St. Michaels steps, ah those were the days. Cascades ramp is very dogey, metal, over vert on one side, pants. The
  • Wood(vile) Halls, about all it's probably good for.
  • There's a new spined 6ft midi ramp behind Sprints, at the top of perry street. You can see it from the road if you come from Sainsbury's direction.
  • Cascades! Pikie heaven and it also doubles as a hook up spot!
  • Next to the Three Daws Pub. Next to Pet City and at Woodville Halls.
  • I just told you - Cascades is where most people go but theres a small area of concrete outside Harry's Brasserie.
  • where else but the prom and it's gardens?
  • A halfpipe at Cascades Leisure Centre (about 2 miles out of town, heading out on the Rochester Road towards Higham).
  • Cascade Leisure Centre: 16' wide, 8' transitions, 6" vert. Zebra, metal surface, hence very slippery.

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