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June 2015

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Swanscombe

Swanscombe, Kent. Sat 6 Jun 2015

  
 
 From Lovers Lane looking towards Greenhithe

 Lovers Lane

 Ingress Estate

 The footpath getsvery narrow at the edge of a site now being developed for housing

 Portland Place, Ingress Park and Thames

 Riverside path, Ingress Park

 Riverside path looking downriver

 Riverside path looking upriver

 The eastern end of the Ingress Park development

 
 
 

 

Ingress Park from the east 

The 400kV power line crosses the Thames between Swanscombe and West Thurrock 

The pylons, said to be the tallest in the UK, are 190-metre (623 feet) tall  

and the cable at its lowest point is 76 metres (249 feet). 

 

The two lattice towers are 1372 metres (4501 feet) apart, 0.852 miles. 

Coal Wharf at Bell Wharf, Swanscombe 

Coal was taken from here to the Swanscombe Portland Cement Works by a ropeway.  
   

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