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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 SE 1078
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Elphinstone Point Coastguard Station, Isle of Grain

Summary

Elphinstone Point Coastguard Station is shown in a boat known as 'Roebuck' on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. It is also marked simply as 'Coastguard Station on the 2nd edition map but no further trace is known.

Grid Reference:TQ 86039 74202
Map Sheet:TQ87SE
Parish:ISLE OF GRAIN, MEDWAY, KENT

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Elphinstone Point Coastguard Station, !st ed OS 6 inch map shows the station houses in a boat, the map imples that the boast name in the 'Roebuck'. A hard is shown running from the station to the LW mark (1). Site not identified during 2002 survey (2).

Mentioned in Isle of Grain Historic Area Assessment conducted by English Heritage in 2014. An isolated house on the Medway riverside at Cockleshell Hard was being used by the Coastguard in the 1860s "because Grain riverside, as elsewhere on the peninsula, was ideal smuggling territory" (3).


<1> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2002, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Field Assessment (Pilot) (Bibliographic reference). SWX11840.

<3> English Heritage, 2014, Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment (Monograph). SKE29397.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Wessex Archaeology. 2002. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Field Assessment (Pilot).
<3>Monograph: English Heritage. 2014. Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment.