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Jul 11, 2020 · Set of 226 photographs taken in various parts of Dartford, Kent, UK (map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/51.4433/0.2274). Includes parts of the town centre, the Langley Square development, Temple Hill area, Watling Street Cemetery, East Hill area, St Edmund's Pleasance, High Street and various other streets.
Dedicated to preserving Kent's history in pictures. This extensive photo-archive currently contains 25549 historic images, with many dating back to the late 1800s. Search all images on site. Select TOWN/VILLAGE: – and/or –. Enter FEATURE *: * FEATURE can be such items as Church, Station, Mill, Lighthouse or even a street name.
Mar 25, 2019 · Photos (175) of Dartford, Kent, UK 25 Mar 2019. Set of 175 photographs taken in Dartford, Kent, UK. The photos cover a large part of the town centre (map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.44401/0.21710 ).
May 9, 2021 · Set of 216 photographs taken in Dartford, Kent, UK mostly in the south and south east of the town (map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4361/0.2281). Includes parts of Central Park (extension on former Wellcome Club grounds), Darenth Road, James Clubb Way, Clearwater Lane, path from Darenth Road to Green Street Green Road, Orbital One ...
RME0X9EH–Oct. 10, 1965 - Operation Clean - up by the Lady Mayor of Dartford: Into the river throwing twigs and dignity to the wind, steps a lady Maker. Out of the river after three hours and a lot of work, came more than 100 barrow-loads of old iron, bricks, cans bottles and rotten wood.They bury their dead beneath their steeple.
History of Dartford. Dartford comes from the Old English ‘ford’ as a ‘ford’ combined with a river name; therefore, a ‘ford over the River Darent’ – a Celtic name meaning ‘river where oak-trees grow. The Domesday Book records Dartford as Tarentefort.
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In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Dartford like this: Dartford, market town and par. with ry. sta., W. Kent, on river Darent, 17 miles E. of London by rail, 4251 ac. and 183 ac. tidal water and foreshore, pop. 10,163; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank, 3 newspapers.
