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    The Kent Coalfield is a coalfield in the eastern part of the English county of Kent. The Coalfields Trust defines the Kent Coalfield as the wards of Barham...
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    century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger. The name Elvington...
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    watermills. From about 1900, several coal pits operated in East Kent. The Kent Coalfield was mined during the 20th century at several collieries, including...
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    Dover District (category Non-metropolitan districts of Kent)
    is situated. In the district are industrial remains of the erstwhile Kent coalfield, situated around Tilmanstone and Betteshanger. Half of the underwater...
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  • of air pollution that had few equals anywhere in the world. The Kent coalfield in Kent in South East England also had coal mining operations. In South...
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  • (later the Kent and East Sussex Railway). The railways were planned, and some later run, from an office at 23 Salford Terrace in Tonbridge, Kent, which Stephens...
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    Snowdown (category Hamlets in Kent)
    Snowdown is a hamlet near Dover in Kent, England. It was the location of one of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield, which closed in 1987. The population...
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    third, 15224, was sold by BR to the National Coal Board for use in the Kent Coalfield. It was used at Betteshanger and Snowdown collieries, and was preserved...
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  • Essex and also in Aylesham, in Kent, because of the large influx of miners from Northern England to work in the Kent Coalfield. The "t" form suggests a voiceless...
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    War as a network of lines in East Kent linking at least nine proposed collieries in the newly discovered Kent coalfield to a new coal port at Richborough...
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    Tilmanstone (category Villages in Kent)
    Eythorne, operated from 1906 to 1986 as one of the four main pits of the Kent coalfield. The population taken at the 2011 Census also included that of the nearby...
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    between 1911 and 1917 to serve the Kent Coalfields. See East Kent Light Railway for details of the original lines. The Kent Collieries were mostly a failure...
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    Johnson, W. (October 1972). "The Development of the Kent Coalfield, 1896-1946" (PDF). University of Kent at Canterbury. Retrieved 11 February 2024. "S. Pearson...
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    Board, and were used in the North East England, South Wales and the Kent Coalfield. Only one of the LMS examples is preserved being: AD601 at Lakeside...
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    times and occurred in many different parts of the country. Britain's coalfields are associated with Northumberland and Durham, North and South Wales,...
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    Betteshanger (category Villages in Kent)
    Dover district, in east Kent, UK, near Deal. It gave its name to the largest of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield. In 1931 the parish had...
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    Eythorne (category Villages in Kent)
    is on the heritage East Kent Railway. Eythorne has a post office, a primary school, a pub and a village shop. Kent coalfield "Civil Parish population...
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  • The Kent State shootings (also known as the Kent State massacre or May 4 massacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students...
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    village is also on the Miner's Way Trail. The trail links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent. Ann Robertson (nurse) Paul Farbrace (cricket coach) Jonathan...
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    Within the parish is The Miner's Way Trail, which links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent. "Parish population 2011". Retrieved 3 October 2015. Paull...
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    Hersden (category Villages in Kent)
    Isle of Thanet. Work in the Kent Coalfield was the main source of employment in the village until the closure of the Kent colliery in the 1980s. The parish...
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    Aylesham railway station (category Railway stations in Kent)
    increase in passenger traffic brought about by the development of the Kent coalfield. The station passed to the Southern Region of British Railways on nationalisation...
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    1935; 250 men were made redundant. Eighty were offered jobs in the Kent coalfield and some secured employment with Avro at Woodford. The Anson Colliery...
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    North Downs (category Hills of Kent)
    drilled at the foot of the Downs in several locations in Surrey. The Kent Coalfield was established in the late 19th century after coal was found in 1890...
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  • depth in boreholes but are not exposed at the surface. The Kent Coalfield is a concealed coalfield working the Coal Measures at depth. These rocks are nowhere...
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    Eastry (redirect from Eastry, Kent)
    village is also on the Miner's Way Trail. The trail links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent. Eastry has had a number of windmills over the centuries. There...
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  • Llanerch Colliery, Abersychan in Monmouthshire kills 176. 15 February – Kent Coalfield located. 4 March – the Forth Bridge in Scotland opens to rail traffic...
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  • 26 August – Betteshanger, the last colliery in Kent, closes, signalling the end of the Kent Coalfield after 93 years. 29 August – Stone-throwing youths...
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    village is also on the Miner's Way Trail. The trail links up the coalfield parishes of East Kent. Wingham is a village serving some light industry but is mostly...
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