Woolage Village is a former mining village situated midway between
Canterbury
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and
Dover 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. The village shop and
post office
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was shut in the 1990s and converted to a dwelling.
External links
Womenswold Parish Council
Villages in Kent
Mining communities in England
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