Location:
- Grid reference: TQ61577530
- x=561570
- y=175300
- 51°27'13"N; 0°19'32"E
- Civil Parish: Northfleet, Kent
Clinker manufacture operational: 1873-1900
Approximate total clinker production: 230,000 tonnes
Raw materials:
- Upper Chalk (Seaford Chalk Formation: 85-88 Ma) from the NCBC quarries
- Thames and Medway Alluvial Clay
Ownership:
- 1873-1880 Goreham & Tolhurst
- 1881-1900 Tower Portland Cement Co. Ltd
- 1900 APCM (Blue Circle)
Otherwise known as Butchard’s Works. Six chamber kilns in 1890 (output 150 t/week). Increased 1891-1893 to nine (240 t/week) and 1898-1899 to sixteen (450 t/week). The plant used water transport, although a rail link was later made. After closure, the site was immediately redeveloped, initially as a concrete products plant, and is currently under port facilities.
Power supply
No information
Rawmills
No information
No rotary kilns were installed.
Sources:
- Primary Sources:
- Greenhithe Archive
- Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping
- BGS mapping and monographs
- Confirmatory Sources: