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Swanscombe is a village, part of the Borough of Dartford on the north Kent coast in England. It is part of the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. Dartford is the principal town in the borough of Dartford. ...
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History
Prehistory Bone fragments and tools, representing the earliest humans known to have lived in England, have been found from 1935 onwards at the Barnfield Pit about 2 km outside of the village. Swanscombe Man (now thought to be female) was a late Homo erectus or an early Archaic Homo sapiens. The c. 400,000 year-old skull fragments are kept at the Natural History Museum in London with a replica on display at the Dartford Museum. Lower levels of the Barnfield Pit yielded evidence of an even earlier, more primitive human, dubbed Clactonian Man. 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar). ...
Barnfield Pit is the site of a gravel quarry near the village of Swanscombe in the north west of the English county of Kent. ...
Barnfield Pit is the site of a gravel quarry near the village of Swanscombe in the north west of the English county of Kent. ...
Binomial name (Dubois, 1892) Synonyms †Sinanthropus pekinensis †Javanthropus soloensis †Meganthropus paleojavanicus Homo erectus (Latin: upright man) is an extinct species of the genus Homo. ...
Homo sapiens (Latin: wise man) is the scientific name for the human species. ...
For other similarly-named museums see Museum of Natural History. ...
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The Clactonian is the name given by archaeologists to an industry of European flint tool manufacture which dates to the early part of the interglacial period known as the Hoxnian, the Mindell-Riss or the Holstein interglacial (300,000-200,000 years ago). ...
Viking era During archaeological work undertaken at Ebbsfleet, before construction of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, an Anglo-Saxon mill and a Roman villa were found near Swanscombe. Ebbsfleet is a location which, west of the Ebbsfleet River, is in the Borough of Dartford. ...
A Eurostar train on the CTRL, near Ashford The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL) is a project to construct a 108 km (67 mile) high-speed railway line from London through Kent to the British end of the Channel Tunnel. ...
The famous parade helmet found at Sutton Hoo, probably belonging toRaedwald of East Anglia circa 625. ...
Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between 43 and 410. ...
The Albertian Villa Medici in Fiesole: terraced grounds on a sloping site. ...
From Crayford to the Isle of Thanet, the Danes occupied the land and terrorised the Saxon inhabitants, giving rise to the appearance of Deneholes, of which many have survived to this day. These were wells, cut deep into the chalk landscape, thought to be for concealing people and goods. They have a simple vertical shaft with short tunnels bearing horizontally from the base. For other uses, see Crayford (disambiguation). ...
The Isle of Thanet is an area of northeast Kent, England. ...
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Denehole (alternatively Dene hole or Dene-hole) is the name given to certain caves or excavations in England, which have been popularly supposed to be due to the Danes or some other of the early northern invaders of the country. ...
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The Needles,situated on the Isle Of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ...
The Vikings settled throughout the winter along the Thames estuary with their ships, and established camps in Kent and Essex. In surveying the distribution of the many deneholes along the Thames corridor it would appear that Essex, on the northern shore of the Thames, sustained a greater influx of Vikings than did Kent, there being considerably more recorded deneholes in Essex, particularly around Orsett and Grays. The name Viking is a loan from the native Scandinavian term for the Norse seafaring warriors who raided the coasts of Scandinavia, Europe and the British Isles from the late 8th century to the 11th century, the period of European history referred to as the Viking Age. ...
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Essex is a county in the East of England. ...
Orsett is a place in the Thurrock borough and unitary district of Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. ...
Archaeological digs and centuries of tilling have revealed a Danish castle and settlement, with pottery, anchors, weapons and some ships' timbers. The settlement was later variously called Suinescamp (in the Domesday Book), Sweinscamp and Swanscamp, the name deriving from the Viking king Sweyn Forkbeard, who landed in East Anglia, and became King of England in 1013. Father of Canute, Sweyn died at Gainsborough on the Trent in 1014. Canute (Cnut) died in 1035 his sons were unable to hold on to his empire, he was king of England, Scotland, Norway and Denmark. For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). ...
A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...
Sweyn I Forkbeard (actually Svein Otto Haraldsson; in Danish, Svend Tveskæg, originally Svend Tjugeskæg or Tyvskæg) (circa 960 - February 3, 1014). ...
Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ...
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Events Danish invasion of England under king Sweyn I. King Ethelred flees to Normandy, and Sweyn becomes king of England. ...
Canute (or Cnut) I, or Canute the Great (Old Norse: Knútr inn rÃki, Danish: Knud den Store, Norwegian: Knut den mektige, Swedish: Knut den store) (ca. ...
Gainsborough is a town in Lincolnshire, England. ...
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Other research suggests that deneholes might have been dug as a method of extracting chalk for use on the fields above, or the mining may have been a by-product of defence. In any case, the practice reached a peak around the 13th – 14th centuries, long after the Viking raids had ceased. (12th century - 13th century - 14th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 13th century was that century which lasted from 1201 to 1300. ...
This 14th-century statue from south India depicts the gods Shiva (on the left) and Uma (on the right). ...
Norman Conquest In 1066 Swanscombe locals massed an army in defiance of William I, and so won the right to continue their ancient privileges, including the tradition of passing inheritance by gavelkind. The men of Kent met William near Swanscombe, where the Saxons concealed their number with branches, thus intimidating the Norman army. They were offered a truce that left Kent as the only region in England which William did not conquer. Kent County Council have inherited the motto Invicta, meaning unconquered. Events January 6 - Harold II is crowned September 20 - Battle of Fulford September 25 - Battle of Stamford Bridge September 29 - William of Normandy lands in England at Pevensey. ...
William I ( 1027 – September 9, 1087), was King of England from 1066 to 1087. ...
Gavelkind was a peculiar system of land tenure associated chiefly with the county of Kent, but found also in other parts of England. ...
Churches Richard Norman Shaw (commonly known as Norman Shaw) built a church at Swanscombe for the workers of the cement industry, and it survives as a rare example of his design. House in Frognal, 1885 Richard Norman Shaw (Edinburgh May 7, 1831 – London November 17, 1912), was the most influential British architect from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings. ...
Richard Norman Shaw (1831 - 1913) was a successful Victorian architect. ...
The flint-built parish church of St Peter and Saint Paul, partially Saxon, had a spire on its tower until 1902, when the church was struck by lightning causing extensive damage. The parish register dates from 1559. According to tradition, Peter was crucified upside-down, as shown in this painting by Caravaggio. ...
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1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
January 15 - Elizabeth I of England is crowned in Westminster Abbey. ...
Second World War Just after 8 O'clock on the evening of Sunday 10 November 1940 a German bomb crashed down directly into The Morning Star Inn, causing in a single explosion, Swanscombe's worst wartime disaster. All that was left of the after the explosion, where the pub had stood was a "heap of bricks and twisted rafters"¹ surrounding the smoldering pit that had been the cellar, although the staircase leading to the clubroom upstairs extended up out of the wreckage. Distressed families of those known to be in the pub at the time gathered at the streets corners awaiting news of the casualties as bodies were gradually recovered from the ruins. is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The official casualty lists revealed the death toll to be 27, with six others seriously injured with five people slightly hurt.
- "The landlord was amongst the dead, although his wife and Son survived. The barmaid who was killed had given notice the week before the raid but had stayed on that evening because of the match. One of the other victims was a merchant seaman on seven days' leave who had spent two days travelling from Scotland to see his wife and children and was having a drink with his father in the pub at the time of the bombing: both were killed."¹
On 30 July 1940 another, attack by the Luftwaffe led to the death of over a dozen civilians, with 22 others seriously injured. Its proximity to London and position under the German flight path to the city meant that Swanscombe fell victim to this kind of damage several times during the war. is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Deutsche Luftwaffe or (German: air force, literally Air Weapon, pronounced lufft-va-fa, IPA: ) is the commonly used term for the German air force. ...
Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
¹ Andrew Rootes (1980) "Front Line County". On 30th July 1944 a V1 rocket landed on Taunton Rd. Half of one side of road was wiped out. 13 were killed and 22 seriously injured.I was evacuated 2 days before with my Mother and elder Brother,my Father survived under the kitchen table. "Gravesend Reporter" Aug. 6th 1944 "Front Line County" Andrew Rootes (1980) Page 157.
Cement industry
 Cement plants on the Thames estuary The southeast of England has abundant resources of clay and chalk. The first mining activity known in the area was for flint, a rock commonly found across the North and South Downs and in the Weald. This was used for tools. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 543 pixelsFull resolution (1343 × 911 pixel, file size: 45 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of the Thames estuary showing cement plants between Dartford and Gravesend, location of raw materials, and areas quarried up to 1996. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 543 pixelsFull resolution (1343 × 911 pixel, file size: 45 KB, MIME type: image/png) Map of the Thames estuary showing cement plants between Dartford and Gravesend, location of raw materials, and areas quarried up to 1996. ...
The Gay Head cliffs in Marthas Vineyard are made almost entirely of clay. ...
The Needles,situated on the Isle Of Wight, are part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. ...
This article is about the sedimentary rock. ...
Geology of the South East, Chalk is light green (6) A cross-section , showing the Wealden Dome, and relating it to the towns of Kent The North Downs are a ridge of chalk hills located in south east England that stretch for 120 miles (190 km) from Hampshire through Surrey...
Near Beachy Head The South Downs is one of the two areas of chalk downland in southern England. ...
A weald once meant a dense forest, especially the famous great wood once stretching far beyond the ancient counties of Sussex and Kent, England, where this country of smaller woods is still called the Weald. ...
Swanscombe was important in the early history of cement. The first cement manufacturing works near Swanscombe were opened at Northfleet by James Parker, around 1792, making "Roman cement" from cement stone brought from the Isle of Sheppey. James Frost opened a works at Swanscombe in 1825, using chalk from Galley Hill, having patented a new cement called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was subsequently acquired by John Bazley White & Co, which became the largest component of Blue Circle Industries when it formed in 1900. It finally shut down in 1990. Between 1840 and 1930 it was the largest cement plant in Britain. By 1882 several cement manufacturers were operating across the north Kent region, but the resulting dust pollution drove the people of Swanscombe to take legal action against the local cement works. Despite various technological innovations, the problem persisted into the 1950s, with telegraph lines over an inch thick in white dust. Modern cement kilns in Kent using chimneys 170 m (550 feet) in height are now said to be the cleanest in the world. However, the neighbouring Medway towns are reported to be the most polluted inhabited area in the UK, and the cement industry contributes to acid rain in Scandinavia[citation needed]. In the most general sense of the word, cement is a binder, a substance which sets and hardens independently, and can bind other materials together. ...
Location within the British Isles Northfleet as a name is derived from North creek (or inlet), and the settlement on the shore of the River Thames adjacent to Gravesend was known as Norfluet in the Domesday Book, and Northflet in 1201. ...
James Parker was a British clergyman and cement manufacturer who invented one of the pioneering new cements of the late eighteenth century. ...
1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
View towards Minster from Elmley Marshes The Isle of Sheppey is a small (36 square miles, 94 km²) island off the northern coast of Kent, England in the Thames Estuary, some 38 miles (62km) to the east of central London. ...
James Frost (1780?-1840?) was a British cement manufacturer, and invented processes that led to the eventual development of Portland cement. ...
Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1825 (MDCCCXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement. ...
Year 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...
Air pollution is a chemical, particulate matter, or biological agent that modifies the natural characteristics of the atmosphere. ...
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Medway is the name given to a conurbation in the north of Kent, England. ...
The term acid rain or more accurately acid precipitation is commonly used to mean the deposition of acidic components in rain, snow, dew, or dry particles. ...
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centered on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ...
Blue Circle The APCM, or Blue Circle Industries, came to the area in 1900 and by 1920 owned four local factories located at Swanscombe, Northfleet, Greenhithe and Stone. Äž: For the film, see: 1900 (film). ...
1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ...
Greenhithe is a village in Dartford District of Kent, England. ...
Stone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford is one of a string of villages lying along the Dartford to Gravesend road on the south bank of the River Thames in Kent, England. ...
By 1970 the North Kent cement industry had evolved to become the largest centre for the production of cement in Europe, supporting a long tradition of research and development to perfect the processes used in the manufacture of chalk-based products. Since then the industry has declined considerably due to the potential for more economic manufacture elsewhere, and currently (2007) only two operational kilns remain. Year 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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One of the large quarries created as a legacy of the cement industry, between Watling Street and the village of Stone, is the site of the Bluewater shopping complex, one of the largest such centres in Europe. [2004] It has been announced that an adjacent quarry is to be given up for housing — more than 700 houses will be built there. , Bluewater interior This article is about a shopping mall. ...
The modern Watling Street crossing the Medway at Rochester near the Roman and Celt crossings Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. ...
Stone, also known as Stone-next-Dartford is one of a string of villages lying along the Dartford to Gravesend road on the south bank of the River Thames in Kent, England. ...
Palaeoloxodon antiquus The skeleton of an ancient species of elephant has been preserved in the sediment near what was once the edge of a small lake. The skeleton was surrounded by flint tools. Only a few elephant skeletons have been found in Britain. The Swanscombe example was discovered by geologist Dr Peter Allen and has since been identified by the Natural History Museum as the straight-tusked Palaeoloxodon antiquus, which became extinct over 100,000 years ago. Genera and Species Loxodonta Loxodonta cyclotis Loxodonta africana Elephas Elephas maximus Elephas antiquus †Elephas beyeri †Elephas celebensis †Elephas cypriotes †Elephas ekorensis †Elephas falconeri †Elephas iolensis †Elephas planifrons †Elephas platycephalus †Elephas recki †Stegodon †Mammuthus †Elephantidae (the elephants) is a family of pachyderm, and the only remaining family in the order Proboscidea...
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Binomial name Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus (Falconer & Cautley, 1847) The Straight-tusked Elephant (Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus or Palaeoloxodon antiquus) inhabited Middle and Late Pleistocene continental Europe. ...
Local Schools There are 4 schools in the area. - Swanscombe Infant School; which allows students of ages 4-7.
- Craylands School; which is an infants and junior school and allows students aged 4 - 11. It is much more recent and was opened in 2004.
- Sweyne Junior School; which allows students aged 7 - 11. The headteacher has recently changed and is now a MR D Lloyd.
- Swan Valley Community school - it is a recently built school opened in 1998 and is open to students aged 11-16. An Elephant tusk was found during the building of the school and in 2006 it was appointed a specialist sports college.
- Spark IT is an adult education centre based in Swanscombe High Street
Cricket club There is one cricket club with its home in Swanscombe, Swanscombe and Greenhithe CC. Its home ground is at Broomfield Park. The club dates back to 1880.[1]
External links Swanscombe today: - Swanscombe Lions.
- PDF file Swanscombe in the County plan.
- Government regeneration scheme.
- Swanscombe classified
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