Location:
- Grid reference: TQ62357468
- x=562350
- y=174680
- 51°26'52"N; 0°20'11"E
- Civil Parish: Northfleet, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1876-1902
Approximate total clinker production: 250,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from quarry at 562300,174500
- Thames and Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1879-1900 Lawrence and Wimble
- 1900-1902 APCM (Blue Circle)
Also called Lawrence & Wimble’s. The plant started with two bottle kilns, expanded to five around 1883 and to eight around 1887. In 1888, six chamber kilns were installed, and a further three around 1891. The bottle kilns were out of use by 1900. Output around 230 t/week. There was no rail link, all product being shipped by barge. The site much later was redeveloped as part of Northfleet plant: the slurry storage tanks largely covered the site.
Power supply
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Rawmills
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No rotary kilns were installed. There is little detailed contemporary information available regarding this plant. Please contact me with any relevant information or corrections. I am particularly interested in firmer dates and statistics, pictures and plans.
Sources::
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: