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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 96 SW 235 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Cleaver and Mist's Cement Works |
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Summary
Site of cement works operated from c1820 to 1890.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 91040 64194 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ96SW |
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| Parish: | SITTINGBOURNE, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- CEMENT WORKS (Post Medieval - 1820 AD? to 1900 AD (between))
Full description
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The site of the Bayford cement works set up in the early 1820s by Samuel and Charles Cleaver for the manufacture of Roman cement. Portland cement was manufactured from the early 1850s . Firm became a limited company in 1883, but did not prosper and closed in 1890.
It is marked on the 1st and 2nd editions O.S. but as disused on the 3rd edition.
The site has been cleared.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE13236.
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske13236.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication. |
