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Allhallows is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in Rochester Kent, England. Situated in the northernmost part of Kent, and covering an area of 23.99 km 2, the parish is bounded on the north side by the River Thames, and in the east by the course of Yantlet creek, now silted up.
Allhallows-on-Sea station was the railway station for Allhallows-on-Sea, Kent from 1932 to 1961. It was opened partly on the 14 and fully on 16 May 1932. It had an island platform with a run-round loop. Originally the branch from Stoke Junction was single track, but it was doubled in 1935, and singled again in 1957.
Allhallows-on-Sea: SR: 1961 Allhallows Colliery: Maryport and Carlisle Railway: 1928 approximate date ... Complete British Railway Maps and Gazetteer (1825–1985).
The branch line to Allhallows-on-sea was opened on 16 May 1932, [4] followed on 17 July 1932 by opening of another halt at Stoke Junction. [5] A new station opened at Grain on 3 September 1951, replacing Grain Crossing Halt, which closed to rail traffic on 11 July 1951 and passengers on 3 September 1951 - a bus service being provided between ...
A poster of the opening of the Allhallows-on-Sea branch. In 1878, Henry Pye with a deputation of other local farmers met the South Eastern Railway Company with a request for a new railway to be built in the area. From this meeting a new company was established, the Hundred of Hoo Railway Company. The SER saw it as part of the development of ...
Slough Fort is a small artillery fort that was built at Allhallows-on-Sea in the north of the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.Constructed in 1867, the D-shaped fort was intended to guard a vulnerable stretch of the River Thames against possible enemy landings during a period of tension with France.
White area on map Chatham: Allhallows • Borstal • Brompton • Chattenden • Cliffe • Cliffe Woods • Cooling • Cuxton • Frindsbury • Frindsbury Extra • Gillingham • Halling • Hempstead • High Halstow • Hoo St Werburgh • Isle of Grain • Lordswood • Park Wood • Rochester • Rainham • Rainham Mark • St Mary ...
Cliffe and Cliffe Woods is a civil parish in the borough of Medway in Kent, England. [1] The parish is located on the Hoo Peninsula and comprises the villages of Cliffe and the suburb, Cliffe Woods.