Leaves Green
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| Leaves Green | |
| Kent | |
|---|---|
 The village sign incorporating the coal tax post | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ414616 |
| Location: | 51°20’7"N, -0°1’46"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Keston |
| Postcode: | BR2 |
| Dialling code: | 01959 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Bromley |
Leaves Green is a village in Kent, standing by the Bromley to Westerham road (the A233), adjacent to the north-western perimeter of Biggin Hill Airport. It is some five miles south of Bromley and two miles north of Biggin Hill.
Leaves Green village has a large (and eponymous) village green which straddles the A233. This is the location for a coal tax post, one of numerous of these posts which in their time denoted the boundary of the area in which the City of London Corporation was empowered to collect duty on coal.[1] [2] The post is also depicted on the village sign.
References
- ↑ "Coal tax posts". City of London Corporation. Archived from the original on 23 January 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120123123157/http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/LGNL_Services/Leisure_and_culture/Local_history_and_heritage/coal_posts.htm. Retrieved 2012-01-25.
- ↑ Nail, Martin. "The boundary marks today: List of extant marks". City posts: the coal duties of the City of London and their boundary marks. http://www.coaldutyposts.org.uk/today/list.html. Retrieved 2012-01-25.