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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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
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″ northLongitude
1.27218° or 1° 16′ 20″ eastElevation
207 feet (63 metres)Inception
1906Open location code
9F33675C+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 8334958541OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mineGeoNames ID
6955463
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