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    Swanscombe Skull Site or Swanscombe Heritage Park is a 3.9-hectare (9.6-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Swanscombe, north-west...
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    2 km (1 mile) outside the village. This site is now the Swanscombe Heritage Park. Swanscombe Man (now thought to be female) was a late homo erectus or...
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    Early European modern humans Homo antecessor Homo rhodesiensis Swanscombe Heritage Park Tautavel Man Tunel Wielki e.g. Theodor C. H. Cole, Wörterbuch der...
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    have been found at sites including Barnfield Pit and Rickson's Pit, near Swanscombe in Kent and Barnham in Suffolk; similar industries have been identified...
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    north beyond the 50th parallel (Eartham Pit, Boxgrove 500kya, Swanscombe Heritage Park 400kya, Denisova Cave 50 kya). It has been suggested that late...
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  • Bones of a young female Neanderthal (Homo neanderthalensis) at Swanscombe Heritage Park, Kent. Earliest evidence of Neanderthals in Britain. c. 352,000...
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  • St Brelade (Jersey, Channel Islands) Lynford Quarry (England) Swanscombe Heritage Park (England) Abrigo de la Quebrada (Valencian Community) L'Arbreda...
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    its share of ficrons, found in gravel pits and fluvial deposits. Swanscombe Heritage Park is famous for its many archaeological discoveries, including ficrons...
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  • than today. The molluscs may relate the site to the site now at Swanscombe Heritage Park, which provide evidence of the earliest human beings in England...
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  • Corbishley, Mike (17 April 2014). Pinning Down the Past: Archaeology, Heritage, and Education Today (Reprint ed.). Boydell Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-1843839040...
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    Swanscombe railway station is a railway station that serves the village of Swanscombe in north Kent, England. It is 21 miles 14 chains (34.1 km) down...
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     107–16. ISBN 978-0-713-99795-8. "Welcome to the Swanscombe Heritage Park website". Swanscombe Heritage Park. Archived from the original on 15 June 2017....
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    rich in significant Paleolithic sites, including Swanscombe Heritage Park just to the west, and Swanscombe Thameside Community School ("Swan Valley School"...
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    Dumpton Park railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving the district of Dumpton between the towns of Broadstairs and Ramsgate, Kent...
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    ago: a tribe of prehistoric hunter-gatherers whose exemplar is called Swanscombe Man. Many other archaeological investigations have revealed a good picture...
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  • castle earthwork, pub and church. Swanscombe (on the Thames)'s Leisure Centre has information about the Swanscombe Skull Site National Nature Reserve;...
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    read "Shepherdswell". It is adjacent to the terminus of the East Kent heritage line, which is spelt as one word: Shepherdswell. The booking office in...
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    Angels, Bedford Park, as the Anglican parish church for the development. Cragside, Northumberland, 1869 St. Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park, 1879 Norman...
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    third-largest shopping centre in the UK; it was built on the former Blue Circle Swanscombe Cement Works, which closed in 1990. South East Water is in Snodland. H+H...
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    Age), as attested by an early Neanderthal skull found in the quarries at Swanscombe. The Medway megaliths were built during the Neolithic era. There is a...
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    New Romney railway station (category Heritage railway stations in Kent)
    given over to a small heritage group who are developing an archive of historical material and a small collection of restored heritage vehicles, which may...
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    significance. Evidence of early human activity comes from the Middle Gravel at Swanscombe, Kent, a 400,000-year-old stratum, in which skull fragments of a young...
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  • Portland Cement at Swanscombe No.1 at the Colne Valley Railway Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0ST Wn3717 Built 1928 Associated Portland Cement at Swanscombe No.3 at the...
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    outside Gravesham council's authority); Southfleet Parish Council; and Swanscombe and Greenhithe Town Council, both in the Borough of Dartford. The similarity...
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    platforms. The station has a small cycle rack as well as a chargeable car park at the entrance, operated by Saba Parking. The station has step-free access...
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    Northampton and Lamport Railway (category Heritage railways in Northamptonshire)
    1952. Under restoration. Hawthorn Leslie and Company 0-4-0ST No. 3718 Swanscombe No. 4. Built in 1928. Operational, returned to steam in 2019. British...
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    the low-lying Shorne Marshes; to the west, beyond Northfleet and the Swanscombe Marshes. The settlement was thus established as it was a good landing...
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    the Dartford area – Dartford, Stone Crossing, Greenhithe for Bluewater, Swanscombe, Ebbsfleet International, Longfield and Farningham Road. The group operates...
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    London Charing Cross to Gillingham Dartford Stone Crossing Greenhithe Swanscombe Northfleet Gravesend Higham Strood Rochester Chatham Gillingham Other...
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    Dartford Loop Line Dartford River Darent A282 road Stone Crossing Greenhithe Swanscombe Northfleet Gravesend West Line Gravesend Higham Strood River Medway Rochester...
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