IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Wilks Road, DARTFORD, DA2 6FT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Wilks Road, DA2 6FT by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (11 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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The site of Fantaseas
Cotton Lane, to the south of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, was once a hive of activity. On the west side was Fantaseas swimming pools whilst to the east of Cotton Lane were Stone Lodge Farm, the North Downs Railway and a viewing place with parking to look across the Thames. Every one of these features has gone. Fantaseas opened in the late 1980s with six American-style water slides, a lazy river, wave pool, and an outdoor heated lagoon but within five years it was found to be sinking into the hillside and was closed in 1992 and demolished ten years later. In 2013 all this has changed and housing is being built on the site of Fantaseas.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 12 Apr 2011
0.08 miles
2
Where people once went swimming
Cotton Lane, to the south of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, was once a hive of activity. On the west side was Fantaseas swimming pools whilst to the east of Cotton Lane were Stone Lodge Farm, the North Downs Railway and a viewing place with parking to look across the Thames. Every one of these features has gone. Fantaseas opened in the late 1980s with six American-style water slides, a lazy river, wave pool, and an outdoor heated lagoon but within five years it was found to be sinking into the hillside and was closed in 1992 and demolished ten years later. In 2013 all this has changed and housing is being built on the site of Fantaseas.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 12 Apr 2011
0.09 miles
3
Bow Arrow Lane Cemetery, Dartford
Image taken on 26 December 2017 from Bow Arrow Lane (East).
A small cemetery for the adjacent former City of London Lunatic Asylum, later Stone House Hospital.
There are several visible but badly eroded headstones, which sadly prove indecipherable. The cemetery is slowly being reclaimed by nature.
This closed burial ground, managed by Dartford Borough Council, is not open to the public.
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2530027
Image: © Andy Clark
Taken: 26 Dec 2017
0.09 miles
4
Where Fantaseas once was
Cotton Lane, to the south of the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, was once a hive of activity. On the west side was Fantaseas swimming pools whilst to the east of Cotton Lane were Stone Lodge Farm, the North Downs Railway and a viewing place with parking to look across the Thames. Every one of these features has gone. Fantaseas opened in the late 1980s with six American-style water slides, a lazy river, wave pool, and an outdoor heated lagoon but within five years it was found to be sinking into the hillside and was closed in 1992 and demolished ten years later. In 2013 all this has changed and housing is being built on the site of Fantaseas.
Image: © Marathon
Taken: 12 Apr 2011
0.11 miles
7
Unused Chapel in Stone House Hospital
As seen from Cotton Lane. This building and several others in this complex are disused and look about to be converted.
Image: © David Anstiss
Taken: 15 Feb 2009
0.18 miles
