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Dartford

American  
[dahrt-ferd] / ˈdɑrt fərd /

noun

  1. a borough in Kent, S England, on the River Thames: Peasants' Revolt began here 1381.


Dartford British  
/ ˈdɑːtfəd /

noun

  1. a town in SE England, in NW Kent. Pop: 56 818 (2001)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It was the Penny Pictorial Magazine of 1900 that painted Osterberg's Dartford campus as "the one institution in the world which has for its single aim and object the production of physically perfect women".

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

By summer 1895, students were lobbing small balls into waste paper baskets perched upon poles on the lawn of a new Dartford talent factory: Madame Bergman Osterberg's Physical Training College.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The Dartford college, in various guises, trained teachers until the 1980s.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The 44-year-old, from Dartford in Kent, had pleaded guilty at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court in May.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

This place is celebrated for a manufacture of gunpowder, inferior only to that at Dartford.

From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

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