Swanscombe
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Swanscombe /ˈswɔnzkəm/ is a town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is 4.4 miles west of Gravesend and 4.8 miles east of Dartford.
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Place details
- Locality
- Dartford
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 15,801
- Timezone
- Europe/London
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Swanscombe
- UK place.type
- Town
- UK place.population
- 15,801
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Dartford
- UK place.website
- Swanscombe and Greenhithe Town Council
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Swanscombe and Greenhithe
- Body of water
- River Thames
- Image
- All Saints Church, Swanscombe (2) - geograph.org.uk - 1411878.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01322
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- Commons category
- Swanscombe
- OS grid reference
- TQ598747
- postal code
- DA10
- different from
- Swanscombe Heritage Park
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- History
- Prehistory
- Viking era
- Norman Conquest
- Churches
- Second World War
- Cliff Collapse
- Governance
- Cement industry
- Blue Circle
- Developments
- ''Palaeoloxodon antiquus''
- Cricket club
- Demography
- Transport
- Rail
- Buses
- See also
- References
- External links
Swanscombe /ˈswɔnzkəm/ is a town in the Borough of Dartford in Kent, England, and the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. It is 4.4 miles west of Gravesend and 4.8 miles east of Dartford.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Swanscombe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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