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Swale is a local government district with borough status in Kent, England. The council is based in Sittingbourne , the borough's largest town. The borough also contains the towns of Faversham , Queenborough and Sheerness , along with numerous villages and surrounding rural areas.
Milton Regis is a village in the district of Swale in Kent, England. Former names include Milton-next-Sittingbourne, Milton Royal, Middleton, Midletun and Middletune. It has a population of about 5,000. Today it is a suburb of Sittingbourne, although this has not always been the case. Until around 1800, Sittingbourne was a small hamlet and ...
Pages in category "Borough of Swale" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total. ... Sittingbourne; Sittingbourne and Milton Urban District;
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in the Swale district of Kent, southeast England, 17 miles (27 km) from Canterbury and 45 miles (72 km) from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons. The town stands next to the Swale, a strip of sea separating mainland Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.
At the 2023 Swale Borough Council election, the party won 11 council seats. [13] Afterwards, they formed another coalition with Labour and the Greens. [14] In December 2023, Baldock resigned as deputy leader of Swale Borough Council, after a disagreement with the Labour group. He returned to the role just two weeks later. [15] [16]
Tunstall is a linear village and civil parish in Swale in Kent, England. It is about 2 km to the southwest of the centre of Sittingbourne , on a road towards Bredgar . History
The Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway in Kent is a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway that operates from Sittingbourne to the banks of The Swale.. The line was developed as an industrial railway by paper maker Frank Lloyd in 1904, to transport pulp materials and finished products between Ridham Dock, on the Swale, and the company's paper mill at Sittingbourne, and from the ...
The first mention of bowls in Canada was in 1734, when a British garrison at Nova Scotia was granted land to lay down a green. [2] In 1930, bowls featured at the inaugural Commonwealth Games in Hamilton, Ontario. There were singles, pairs and rinks events. Two years later in April 1932, the CLBA was constituted, assisted by Alfred Langford. The ...