Swanscombe
Swanscombe is a village in the District of Dartford in Kent, England. It is located east of Dartford and north-west of Gravesend, in the civil parish of Swanscombe and Greenhithe. At the 2001 UK census, the Swanscombe selecting ward had a population of 6,418. Swanscombe was essential in the early history of cement. The first cement manufacturing works near Swanscombe were opened at Northfleet by James Parker, around 1792, making "Roman concrete" from concrete stone brought from the Isle of Sheppey. James Frost opened up an operate at Swanscombe in 1825, utilizing chalk from Galley Hill, having patented a brand-new cement called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was subsequently acquired by John Bazley White & Co, which became the largest element of Blue Circle Industries when it formed in 1900. It ultimately closed down in 1990. In between 1840 as well as 1930 it was the largest concrete plant in Britain. By 1882 several cement producers were running throughout the north Kent area, yet the resulting dust contamination drove the people of Swanscombe to take legal action against the neighborhood concrete jobs. Despite numerous technological technologies, the issue continued into the 1950s, with telegraph lines over an inch thick in white dirt. Modern cement kilns in Kent using chimneys 170 m (550 feet) in height are currently claimed to be the cleanest on the planet. Nonetheless, the adjoining Medway communities are reported to be the most polluted occupied location in the UK, and also the concrete industry adds to acid rain in Scandinavia.