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Swanscombe history
Prehistory
Bone fragments and tools, representing the earliest humans known to have lived in England, have been found from 1935 onwards at the Barnfield Pit about 2 km (1 mile) outside the village. This site is now the Swanscombe Heritage Park. Lower levels of the site yielded evidence of an even earlier, more primitive human, dubbed Clactonian Man.
Viking era
The Vikings settled throughout the winter along the Thames estuary with their ships, and established camps in Kent and Essex. From Crayford to the Isle of Thanet, the Danes occupied the land and terrorised the Saxon inhabitants. The settlement was later variously called Suinescamp (in the Domesday Book), Sweinscamp and Swanscamp.
Norman Conquest
In 1066 Swanscombe locals massed an army in defiance of William I. They won the right to continue their ancient privileges, including the tradition of passing inheritance by gavelkind. They were offered a truce that left Kent as the only region in England which William left unconquered.
Churches
Richard Norman Shaw designed All Saints Church in 1894, built out of knapped flint for the workers of the cement industry. It survives as a rare example of his design, covering multiple Gothic Revival styles throughout its architecture and features such as Decorated tracery on the windows and Arts and Crafts Perpendicular woodwork in the interior.
Second World War
A German bomb crashed into The Morning Star Inn in Swanscombe on 10 November 1940. 27 people were killed and six seriously injured in the explosion. The pub was the site of several similar attacks on the town during the Second World War.
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