Woolage Village is a former mining village situated midway between
Canterbury
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and
Dover
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in the
English
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county of
Kent
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. It is 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of the
A2 road. Together with
Womenswold and
Woolage Green, it forms
Womenswold parish.
It consists of approximately 52 semi-detached houses built in 1912, to house miners and their families working at the nearby
Snowdown Colliery
Snowdown is a hamlet near Dover in Kent, England. It was the location of one of the four chief collieries of the Kent coalfield, which closed in 1987.
The population of the village is included in the civil parish of Aylesham, Kent. As a result, ...
. The village shop and
post office
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was shut in the 1990s and converted to a dwelling.
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Villages in Kent
Mining communities in England
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