Erith

Erith, a town of Kent, on the right bank of the Thames, 15½ miles by rail E. of Charing Cross. A summer-resort for Londoners, a steamboat-station, and the headquarters of several yacht clubs, it has a number of fine villas, and a much-restored church, rich in brasses; whilst in the Erith and Plumstead Marshes are large powder magazines, one of which in October 1864 was the scene of a great explosion. At Erith the Grace de Dieu was built in 1515. Pop. of parish (1851) 3231; (1891) 13,411. See C. J. Smith's History of Erith (1873).