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Bean

   This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedDarenth WoodsDenehole. A path skirts the Eastern edge of the wood and where the wood swings eastwards, the denehole is located by a...

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Green Street Green

    This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedGreen Street GreenDene holesPumping station 1902 gas engine house Kent Waterworks Co. Quarry Gravel and sand quarry owned by Woods...

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Swanscombe

This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedBarnfield pit excavations, carried out between 1935-55, revealed skull fragments belonging to a young man in his early twenties, who...

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Stonewood

     This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedSchool LaneRoyal OakStonewoodBeacon Watling StreetRoman road out of use until rebuild Merrychest. Curious looking building to be...

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Bean

 This post has not been finished, it has not been checked or editedBeacon WoodBeacon Hill. Rounded hill with ancient woodland on the lower slopes.  evidence that it has been used to produce timber for...

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Betsham

 This post is not finished, it has not been checked or editedWatling StreetNew roaTusd built by KCC and opened by Prince of Wales in 1924 . The road continues uphill until we come to Swanscombe Wood,...

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Betsham

  This post is not finished, it has not been checked or editedMust once have been a track to Knockhall and Milton Street cut off by chalk workings Betsham route of trackway in prehistoric times between...

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Southfleet

 This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedChambers Siding on Gravesend West Line for fruit and agricultural products Hook Green RoadShip Inn – shows that boats reached Southfleet (!)

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Springhead

  This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedStation RoadSouthfleet and Springhead Station.. 1886 LCDR.  Some way out of Southfleet itself but it was a proper station on a central...

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Southfleet

   This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedSouthfleetThis village of 1,216 inhabitants is referred to in  the Domesday Book as 'Sudflete'. It was once the head of an inlet of the...

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Southfleet

    This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedHook Green RoadCourt LodgeChurch Cottages. Represent a Wealden hall house. Extra service bay.SchoolOld Rectory. The head of a small...

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Northfleet

 This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedDene Holme RoadDene HolePainters Ash Estatedenehole in area which has been built over Pepper Hill DeneholeSite of telegraph, Admiralty...

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Braddidge Pond

  This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedThe Limes. Secret passages and priests holesBroadditch Bradditch, Pond: too big to be a dew pond and near the 100 ft contour, water table...

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Northfleet

   This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedHilary AvenueWas Hog Lane, Line of footpath from Roman potteries to Watling Street  Durndale an old manor Coldharbour Road, is it Roman?...

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Northfleet

 This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedColdharbour Supposed Roman staging post FarmlandChalk Well In 1975, an underground chalk cavern on land farmed by Mr Harris was found.  at...

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Istead Rise

  This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedDrove Way2 chalkwellsIn October 1972 during the building of a new housing estate two shallow and linked chalkwells were broken into by the...

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Gravesend

 This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedCentral AvenueLine of footpath from Gravesend to Toltingtrow Green  Devonshire Road and Central Avenue roughly a path across cornfields to...

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Northumberland Bottom

  This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedTollgate Pub, Used to be called The Northumberland from Northumberland Bottom, Farmhouse was the tollhouse, burnt down Tollgate

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Gravesend

   This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedAlbion Road built upon what was known in the 18th century as East India Field, the chartered company of that name using it as a site for a...

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Gravesend

  This post is not finished it has  not been edited or checkedCoombe RoadDenehole 1950Cornwall Avenue houses built in the early 1920s.Echo SquareDenehole. It was near a public house called "The Echo",...

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