Tilmanstone Colliery

Tilmanstone Colliery is a mine in Eythorne, Dover District, England. Tilmanstone Colliery is situated nearby to the village Elvington, as well as near Eythorne.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Eythorne railway station and Church of St Peter and St Paul.

Eythorne railway station

Railway station

Eythorne railway station is a station on the East Kent Railway. Originally a station on the East Kent Light Railway, It opened on 16 October 1916 but closed to passenger traffic after the last train on 30 October 1948. Eythorne railway station is situated 4,100 feet southwest of Tilmanstone Colliery.

Church of St Peter and St Paul

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church of St Peter and St Paul is situated 3,800 feet southwest of Tilmanstone Colliery.

Eythorne Baptist Church

Church

Eythorne Baptist Church originated in the meetings of early 16th century Baptists who had crossed the English Channel from the Low Countries to Kent to escape persecution. Eythorne Baptist Church is situated 4,100 feet south of Tilmanstone Colliery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Elvington and Eythorne.

Elvington

Village

Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Elvington is a small pit village on a ridge in between Canterbury and Dover in the county of Kent in Southeast England. Located near Eythorne, Elvington was mostly built in the early 20th century to serve the nearby coal mine at Tilmanstone, as were other Kent Coalfield villages including Snowdown, Aylesham and Betteshanger.

Eythorne

Village

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eythorne is a civil parish and small village located 7.3 miles north-northwest of Dover in Kent, with a combined population of approximately 2,500 residents including nearby villages Barfrestone and Elvington.

Barfrestone

Hamlet

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barfrestone is a village and a former civil parish, now in the parish of Eythorne, in the Dover district, in east Kent, England. It is between Shepherdswell, Eythorne and Nonington, close to the former pit villages of Elvington and Snowdown.

Tilmanstone Colliery

Type: Mine
Categories: historic site and industry
Location: Eythorne, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.20917° or 51° 12′ 33″ north

Longitude

1.27218° or 1° 16′ 20″ east

Elevation

207 feet (63 metres)

Inception

1906

Open location code

9F33675C+MV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8334958541

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=mine

GeoNames ID

6955463

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