Coal-tax post
Coal-tax posts are boundary marker posts found in southern England. They were erected in the 1860s and form an irregular loop between 12 and 18 miles from London to mark the points where taxes on coal were due to the Corporation of London.Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Geographical marker
- Description: boundary markers
- Also known as: “coal duty marker”, “Coal tax post”, and “coal-tax post”
- Inscription: “24 & 25 VICT CAP 42”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Chelsfield railway station and Church of St Martin of Tours.
Chelsfield railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chelsfield railway station is on the South Eastern Main Line, serving the Chelsfield and Green Street Green areas south of Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London. Chelsfield railway station is situated 1¼ miles southwest of Coal-tax post.
Church of St Martin of Tours
Church
Photo: Roger W Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Martin of Tours is situated 4,000 feet southwest of Coal-tax post.
Unity Church
Church
Photo: Canthusus2, CC0.
Unity Church is situated 1 mile northwest of Coal-tax post.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chelsfield and Goddington.
Chelsfield
Village
Photo: Braveheart, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chelsfield is an area in southeast London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley and, prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent. It lies south of Goddington, west of Well Hill, north of Pratt's Bottom and east of Green Street Green.
Goddington
Suburb
Goddington is an area in south-east London, located in the London Borough of Bromley. It is situated south of Ramsden, south-east of Orpington town centre, and north of Chelsfield.
Well Hill
Village
Photo: Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Well Hill is a small rural hamlet within the civil parish of Shoreham in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. It borders east of Orpington & 3.5 miles south of Swanley, adjacent to the Kent border with Greater London, within the constituency of Sevenoaks.
Coal-tax post
- Categories: boundary marker and historic site
- Location: Bromley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.36587° or 51° 21′ 57″ northLongitude
0.13031° or 0° 7′ 49″ eastOpen location code
9F32948J+84OpenStreetMap ID
node 6916880038OpenStreetMap feature
historic=boundary_stoneWikidata ID
Q5137685
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In Other Languages
“Coal-tax post” goes by many names.
- German: “Coal-Tax-Säule”
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