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Monument Number 1531742
Hob Uid: 1531742
Location : Medway Cliffe and Cliffe Woods
Grid Ref : TQ7176276543
Summary : A post medieval tramway extending along an embanked causeway from the site of the former Johnson Cliffe Cement Works and the Nine Elms works at the mouth of Cliffe Creek. The tramway latterly became a conveyor running along the same causeway. The land surrounding the eastern half of the causeway has been quarried away to provide clay to the cement works, the embankment an isolated strip flanked by flooded quarry pits. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.
More information : A post medieval tramway centred at TQ 7173 7656, extending for 150m along an embanked causeway from the site of the former Johnson Cliffe Cement Works and the Nine Elms works at the mouth of Cliffe Creek. The tramway first appears as such on the 2nd Edition OS map of 1896, prior to which the embankment existed, but was marked as a trackway. By the 1939 4th edition OS map the tramway has been replaced by a conveyor running along the same causeway. The land surrounding the eastern half of the causeway has been quarried away to provide clay to the cement works, the embankment an isolated strip flanked by flooded quarry pits. This site was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (1-3)

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Source details : NMR RAF/540/458 3030 17-APR-1951
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Source details : Ordnance Survey: Kent Epoch 2 (1:2500 1896)
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : Ordnance Survey: Kent Epoch 4 (1:2500 1939)
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Post Medieval
Display Date : Post Medieval
Monument End Date : 1901
Monument Start Date : 1540
Monument Type : Tramway, Conveyor
Evidence : Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Kent)
External Cross Reference Number : TQ 77 NW 124
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : TQ 77 NW 188
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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2010-09-01
End Date : 2012-03-01

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1531742