Snowdown

Snowdown

infobox UK place
country = England
official_name= Snowdown
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static_image_caption=Capped mine shaft and winding engine house
latitude= 51.215
longitude= 1.21
population =
shire_district= Dover
shire_county = Kent
region= South East England
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Snowdown is a village near Dover in Kent, England. It was the location of one of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield. [ [http://www.dover.gov.uk/kentcoal/exhibition/snowdown.asp Snowdown Colliery] , Coalfields Heritage Initiative Kent]

ee also

*Snowdown railway station

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