Crown Tree Care
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Tree Surgery | Stump Grinding in Gillingham
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Swanscombe
Swanscombe is a village in the Borough 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 electoral ward had a population of 6,418. Swanscombe was essential in the early history of cement. The initial cement production functions 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 new concrete called British Cement. The Swanscombe plant was subsequently acquired by John Bazley White & Co, which came to be the largest element of Blue Circle Industries when it created in 1900. It finally shut down in 1990. In between 1840 and also 1930 it was the biggest cement plant in Britain. By 1882 several cement manufacturers were running throughout the north Kent area, however the resulting dust air pollution drove the people of Swanscombe to take lawsuit versus the regional cement jobs. In spite of various technological developments, the trouble continued right into the 1950s, with telegraph lines over an inch thick in white dust. Modern concrete kilns in Kent making use of chimneys 170 m (550 feet) in elevation are now said to be the cleanest in the world. Nonetheless, the neighbouring Medway towns are reported to be one of the most polluted populated area in the UK, and also the cement market adds to acid rain in Scandinavia.
