Hartlake Road Bridge

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Site of the Hartlake Disaster on October 20, 1853, when a cart filled with 40 Irish and Romani hop pickers fell into the river when the decrepit wooden bridge there at the time partially collapsed. As the Medway river was in flood at the time, thirty died. The dead were buried, and a memorial in the shape of an oast-house erected, at St. Mary's Church, Hadlow. The wooden bridge was subsequently replaced with a stone bridge, which was itself replaced in 2004 with the current concrete structure.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlake_disaster
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Coordinates:   51°12'4"N   0°19'50"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago