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Shepherd's Lane (Dartford) Chalk Mine (United Kingdom)


Extensive pillar & stall workings under brickfield, supplying 20% chalk to mix to make stock bricks. Now completely built over but locked cover to laddered shaft still exists.

References
"Kent & East Sussex Underground", Kent Underground Research Group

"Caves & Tunels in SE England Part 4", Chelsea Speleological Society, page 37

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Other location/mapping information:

Latitude: 51.4443
Longitude: 0.201628
Landranger grid reference: TQ531740
Easting: 553100
Northing: 174000

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Major Mining Region



Shepherd's Lane Chalk Mine belongs to the Kent region.