Snowdown Colliery
Snowdown Colliery is a mine in Aylesham, Dover District, England. Snowdown Colliery is situated nearby to Snowdown railway station, as well as near the hamlet Frogham.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Snowdown railway station and Aylesham railway station.
Snowdown railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Snowdown railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line in England, and serves the hamlet of Snowdown, Kent. It is 69 miles 60 chains down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Aylesham and Shepherds Well. Snowdown railway station is situated 1,300 feet northwest of Snowdown Colliery.
Aylesham railway station
Railway station
Photo: Atomicdanny, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aylesham railway station is on the Dover branch of the Chatham Main Line; it serves the village of Aylesham, in Kent, England. It is 68 miles 66 chains down the line from London Victoria, situated between Adisham and Snowdown. Aylesham railway station is situated 1 mile north of Snowdown Colliery.
Church of St Nicholas
Church
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Church of St Nicholas is situated 1 mile southeast of Snowdown Colliery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Snowdown and Frogham.
Snowdown
Hamlet
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 of the village is included in the civil parish of Aylesham, Kent.
Frogham
Hamlet
Photo: David Long, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Frogham is a hamlet in the Dover District of East Kent, England, 7 miles north west of Dover. It is located between the former coal mining village of Aylesham and Shepherdswell.
Woolage Village
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolage Village is a former mining village situated midway between Canterbury and Dover in the English county of Kent. It is 1 mile to the east of the A2 road.
Snowdown Colliery
- Type: Mine
- Categories: historic site and industry
- Location: Aylesham, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.21289° or 51° 12′ 46″ northLongitude
1.21826° or 1° 13′ 6″ eastElevation
253 feet (77 metres)Inception
1907Open location code
9F336679+58OpenStreetMap ID
way 51812479OpenStreetMap feature
historic=mineGeoNames ID
7115301
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