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Location:
- Grid reference: TQ74806930
- x=574800
- y=169300
- 51°23'45"N; 0°30'46"E
- Civil Parish: Frindsbury Extra, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1880-1901
Approximate total clinker production: 171,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from immediately behind the plant
- Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1880-1895 Globe Portland Cement and Whiting Co. Ltd
- 1895-1900 J. B. White & Brothers Ltd
- 1900-1901 APCM (Blue Circle)
See also a general history of the Frindsbury cement plants. The whiting part of the operation was at Greenhithe. The initial installation had six small chamber kilns, later (1888) extended to eleven, and a further six were added around 1897: total capacity 386 t/week. The plant was operated in concert with the Bridge plant from 1895. The plant was shut down soon after the APCM takeover. The site was absorbed into the Crown and Quarry site and remained derelict until sold for redevelopment after WWII. It is now under light industry.
Power supply
No information
Rawmills
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No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources:
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Rochester Bridge archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: