Monument record TR 25 SW 355 - Aylesham Miners Village.

The miners town of Aylesham was an ambitious project designed to accommodate 3,000 families.

At the time many of the miners at Snowdown lived in Deal and Dover and they were looked down upon by the local people. To alleviate this discontent a new town was planned. In addition to much needed housing for the mine it included shops, social clubs, schools, churches and sports and leisure facilities. Designed by Sir Patrick Abercrombie to a formal plan designed to reflect the shape of a pit head winding frame the full plan was never realised and only 650 houses were built.

Many of the original features of the settlement survive though the town has expanded to about 1,800 houses which are unsympathetic to the original Abercrombie design. (1)

includes Milner Crescent - A crescent of modern brick-built council houses Historic England archive material: BF098806 MILNER CRESCENT, AYLESHAM

Dover District Council, 2013, Dover District Heritage Strategy, Industries - 10.38. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31372.