Snowdown
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Kent, England, UK
- Also known as: “Snowdown, Kent”
Places of Interest
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Aylesham and Woolage Village.
Aylesham
Village
Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Aylesham is a village and civil parish in the Dover district of Kent, England. The village is 6.5 miles south-east of the cathedral city of Canterbury, and 8.5 miles north-west of the town and port of Dover.
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.
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.
Snowdown
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Aylesham, Dover District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.21626° or 51° 12′ 59″ northLongitude
1.21219° or 1° 12′ 44″ eastElevation
256 feet (78 metres)Open location code
9F336686+GVOpenStreetMap ID
node 29202970OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Snowdown” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Snowdown”
- French: “Snowdown”
- Irish: “Snowdown”
- Polish: “Snowdown”
- Welsh: “Snowdown”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Snowdown”. Photo: Nick Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.