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Walking in the Coalfield Parishes
To compliment the Miner's Way Trail WCCP have produced A Rich Seam, a pack of nine self guided exploring the picturesque countryside of East Kent, linking together pretty villages, small farmsteads, grand country estates and remains of this areas industrial and mining heritage. Much of this arable landscape, profuse with hedges and woodlands, has not changed since Saxon times, boasting a long and rich history. Today the remains of the collieries, colliery villages and the East Kent Railway, built to service them, still stand as monuments to the vision of the late Victorian businessmen and to the thousands of miners who walked the length of the country to find employment in the fledgling coalfield. Regular guided walks are being organised in the Coalfield Parishes.
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