Location:
- Grid reference: TQ75086863
- x=575080
- y=168630
- 51°23'23"N; 0°31'0"E
- Civil Parish: Frindsbury Extra, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1884-11/1907
Approximate total clinker production: 400,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from Rochester Chalk Co. quarry at 575100,169400
- Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1884-7/1886 Beaver Cement Co. Ltd
- 7/1886-1895 McLean and Co. Ltd
- 1895-1900 McLean Levett and Co Ltd
- 1900-1907 APCM (Blue Circle)
See also a general history of the Frindsbury cement plants. The plant had eighteen chamber kilns, installed as follows: five in 1884, four in 1888, five in 1891 and four in 1893, giving a final capacity of 468 t/week. The plant was operated in common with Beehive from 1895, and was absorbed into the Crown and Quarry site in 1907, the kilns continuing in use there until 1925.
Power supply
The plant was entirely direct-driven by a 300 HP steam engine.
Rawmills
There was a washmill followed by four flat stone mills.
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Rochester Bridge Archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: