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KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1371 on: March 28, 2020, 02:31:50 PM »
No shoot999 it is not tidal or on the coast

The picture is a rear view

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1370 on: March 28, 2020, 01:37:37 PM »
Is the water the River Medway?

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1369 on: March 28, 2020, 11:58:22 AM »
You will have to go a fair bit North...John
Near some water...

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1368 on: March 28, 2020, 11:55:22 AM »
Wateringbury area ?

KeithG

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« Reply #1367 on: March 28, 2020, 10:24:33 AM »
Thanks MartinR........
Now a spooky looking one.........still there but modified?

pete.mason

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1366 on: March 28, 2020, 09:27:01 AM »
From Aditnow wbsite
 "Ragstone mine for building stone. Some dispute that the rock is ragstone this far west, but it is in the same beds as the ragstone extracted around Maidstone further east. Probably 19th century. Six or seven separate series identified. The more northern ones are gated. The other minor ones are sealed.[/size]Level open but grilled as bat hibernaculum"[/color]

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1365 on: March 27, 2020, 10:37:50 PM »
Yes!  Well done Keith.  The settlement is of course Westerham and the stone is Kentish ragstone.  Over to you :)

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1364 on: March 27, 2020, 10:06:19 PM »
Are you talking about Hosey Hill old quarry which was at the rear of the village school?
Hosey Caves?
Hosey Common quarry tunnels?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1363 on: March 27, 2020, 06:18:37 PM »
Keep going along the A25.

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1362 on: March 27, 2020, 06:15:26 PM »
Dryhill Quarry?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1361 on: March 27, 2020, 05:22:18 PM »
The settlement is about 1/2 mile S of the M25, and the actual location of the quarry about a mile S of that.

KeithG

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1360 on: March 27, 2020, 04:59:37 PM »
I think things are getting mixed up here?


What you're after is it North or South of the M25?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1359 on: March 27, 2020, 03:24:34 PM »
No, the stone is called "Kentish ...stone".  Further hint: If I started at Sevenoaks and headed west to an ancient settlement with a Saxon name, where would I be?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1358 on: March 27, 2020, 03:16:13 PM »
Don't know type of answer you are looking for but Bargate Stone / Kentish Ragstone was mined on Surrey and Kent border ?

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Re: Guess the Place
« Reply #1357 on: March 27, 2020, 03:11:49 PM »
No, try Kentish .....
Recap:South of Chislehurst.  In the area of Fort Halstead.  Clearly an abandoned operation, dug in the mid 19thC.