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Swanscombe (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 51 26 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 51.4333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 000 19 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 0.3167 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the River Thames; site of Barnsfield Pit, where the earliest fossilized human remains in Britain were found; the old parish church here has a Saxon tower. |
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| Swanscombe (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Suanescamp (H,V)
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| Suanescomp (H,V)
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............ | used in 12th cen., meaning the camp (pasture) of the swain (swineherd) |
| Suinescamp (H,V)
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............ | recorded in 1086 |
| Svinescamp (H,V)
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Kent (county) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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was site of early man ca. 600,000-14,000 years ago; later developed as a medieval center |
| village (C) |
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| archaeological site (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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