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  A mine was actually dug about a mile from Whiitfield, Alexander - Guilford Colliery - but I believe it flooded in 1920 and was abandoned before producing any coal commercially. It even had a light railway linking it with the Dover-Victoria line via Shepherdswell. You can buy prints of a picture of the mine at the street markets held around Eaat Kent and I have one myself. The winding house is still there - converted to flats ow.
  
  I understand that the Earl of Gullford wasn't keen on mines in Waldershare Park so this pit was placed right on the park's boundary, next to the lane between Whitfield and Coldred. Timanstone Colliery was of course on the opposite side of the patk, a couple of miles away.
  
  For that matter there was another mine at Lydden - Stonehall - also not a commercial success. I think there were eight Kent mines in all - the aforementioned Shakespeare Colliery at Dover, plus Guilford and Stonehall and the four closed former NCB pits, plus an incipient one at Wingham,- perhaps Gary C can confirm this.
  
  Then there were plans to build a massive steelworks near Dover in the 1930s - so this area narrowly missed out, for better or worse, on becoming a major heavy industrial zone.

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