Ruby England, 13, was last seen in the Singlewell area of Gravesend at around 4pm yesterday (Saturday). The police said she has been safely located and thanked those that had shared the appeal to find ...

Lady Deborah Moody, her baronetcy inherited from her husband, was a 43-year-old widow when she immigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1639. She had left England because she felt ...

Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature. Gravesend Neck Road in 1879. Photo via the Brooklyn ...

Police are appealing for help to find a missing teenage girl from Gravesend. Ruby England, 13, was last seen in the Singlewell area of the town at around 4pm yesterday (January 3). Officers are ...

GRAVESEND, England – American Indians from Virginia traveled to the burial place of Pocahontas on Friday as part of celebrations marking next year’s 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the ...

The story: Gravesend is the only one of Brooklyn’s original six towns that was not established by the Dutch. English Anabaptists led by Lady Deborah Moody settled here in 1643. A persecuted religious ...

Footage shows the moment police caught up with a suspected drug dealer who tripped over while trying to evade arrest. The force had been patrolling Gravesend town centre on Saturday (January 3) when a ...

A man burst into a Sikh temple - the Guru Nanak Darbar Gurdwara - in Gravesend, Kent, and attacked people with a sword before armed police swooped and grappled with him on the floor Video footage ...

A Kent man who ran the length of England to honour his late mother says he has made "memories that will last a lifetime" during the 554-mile (891 km) challenge. Amol Randhawa, from Gravesend, ...

While dozens of names in Brooklyn have a Dutch origin, many of them were changed when the English took over. As our borough series "What's in a Name?" continues, we take a look at British influence in ...