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    Swanscombe /ˈswɒnzkəm/ is a village in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is 4.4 miles west...
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    Swanscombe Skull Site or Swanscombe Heritage Park is a 3.9-hectare (9.6-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swanscombe, north-west...
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    Swanscombe railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Swanscombe in north Kent, England. It is 21 miles 14 chains (34.1 km) down...
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  • Swanscombe and Greenhithe is a civil parish in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England. Swanscombe and Greenhithe is a recent renaming of the ancient...
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    have been found at sites including Barnfield Pit and Rickson's Pit, near Swanscombe in Kent and Barnham in Suffolk; similar industries have been identified...
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    in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is located 4 miles (6.5 kilometres) east of Dartford...
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    as a Green councillor in 2023. In April 2021, 2 councillors from the Swanscombe and Greenhithe Residents Association, Cllrs Sue Butterfill and Anita Barham...
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    council is based. Other notable settlements include Greenhithe, Stone and Swanscombe, along with an emerging new town at Ebbsfleet, and a number of smaller...
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  • Masterplan approved, Eastern Quarry Outline Application Submitted. 2004: Swanscombe Peninsula Outline permission submitted for mixed-use scheme. 2007: Eastern...
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  • The London Resort was a proposed theme park and resort in Swanscombe, Kent, first announced on 8 October 2012 and since repeatedly delayed. Originally...
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    A different version of the legend above is depicted on a monument at Swanscombe, where legend states this meeting took place on the Old Roman Road to...
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    glaciation of the last two million years. The Swanscombe skull, uncovered at Barnfield Pit, a quarry in Swanscombe, is the oldest human skull found in Britain...
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  • The Midsomer Conservation Society is up in arms when the newly built Swanscombe House is a highlight of an open garden day. An ugly confrontation ensues...
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  • Clay Formation. The formation is subdivided into several members. The Swanscombe Member is the youngest member recognised within the Harwich Formation...
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    expanded north beyond the 50th parallel (Eartham Pit, Boxgrove 500kya, Swanscombe Heritage Park 400kya, Denisova Cave 50 kya). It has been suggested that...
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    Thurrock Marshes) Stone Marshes, Stone Greenhithe Swanscombe Swanscombe Marshes/Broadness Lighthouse, Swanscombe Grays (or, more rarely, Grays Thurrock) Northfleet...
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    outside Gravesham council's authority); Southfleet Parish Council; and Swanscombe and Greenhithe Town Council, both in the Borough of Dartford. The similarity...
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    Urban District of Swanscombe, and the Rural District of Dartford. 1974–1983: The Borough of Dartford, the Urban District of Swanscombe, and in the Rural...
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    Wraysbury Broadley Common Chigwell Harlow Loughton Stapleford Abbotts Waltham Abbey Dartford Gravesend Greenhithe Maypole Northfleet Stone Swanscombe...
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    ago: a tribe of prehistoric hunter-gatherers whose exemplar is called Swanscombe Man. Many other archaeological investigations have revealed a good picture...
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    Anthony Weldon (category People from Swanscombe)
    The Court and Character of King James I, London, 1651 Swanscombe local history http://swanscombe.com/newsevents/history.asp Works by Anthony Weldon at...
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    This is a list of about 680 former or extant wharves, docks, piers, terminals, etc. of the Port of London, the majority of which lie on the Tideway of...
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  • Gravesend & Northfleet F.C. The Ebbsfleet Academy, actually located in nearby Swanscombe Ebbsfleet, Thanet, a hamlet in north east Kent, England Bishop of Ebbsfleet...
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    A – Additional capacity at the existing Dartford Crossing Option B – Swanscombe Peninsula linking the A2 to the A1089 Option C – East of Gravesend linking...
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    DA DA08 DA8, DA18 Erith Kent DA DA09 DA9 Greenhithe Kent DA DA10shared Swanscombe Kent DA DA11, DA12, DA13 GRAVESEND Kent DA DA14, DA15 Sidcup Kent DA DA17...
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    early Neanderthals dating to around 400,000 years ago have been found at Swanscombe in Kent, and of classic Neanderthals about 225,000 years old at Pontnewydd...
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    Age), as attested by an early Neanderthal skull found in the quarries at Swanscombe. The Medway megaliths were built during the Neolithic era. There is a...
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    third-largest shopping centre in the UK; it was built on the former Blue Circle Swanscombe Cement Works, which closed in 1990. South East Water is in Snodland. H+H...
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  • appeared in the ITV Drama Midsomer Murders "Not in My Back Yard" as Eleanor Swanscombe. In 2014, she appeared in Happy Valley as Helen Gallagher. Baker appeared...
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    for long distance M25 traffic, as well as new crossings located in the Swanscombe or Tilbury area. In 2017, a route connecting the M25 at North Ockendon...
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