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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 SW 132 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Richborough Power Station |
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Summary
Richborough Power Station, generated from 1960s until 1996. First coal powered, then oil and finally Orimulsion.
| Grid Reference: | TR 33295 61973 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36SW |
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| Parish: | MINSTER, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Richborough Power Station was built in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was initially coal fired but switched to oil in 1971. Rising oil prices lead to another change to burning Orimulsion in 1990 but this was abandoned in 1996 and the station decommissioned. The cooling towers and chimney were demolished in 2012. (1)
Jim Preston Personal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske13236.
<1> Wessex Archaeology, 2007, Richborough Power Station, Sandwich, Kent: Building Recording Report (Unpublished document). SKE18032.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Verbal communication: Jim Preston Personal Communication. |
| <1> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2007. Richborough Power Station, Sandwich, Kent: Building Recording Report. |
