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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 87 NW 1130 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Wiggins & Co. Oil Refinery |
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Summary
In the 1930s Berry Wiggins & co. established an oil refinery on the site of the former RNAS Kingsnorth site reusing many of the same buildings and a jetty.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8067 7300 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ87SW |
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| Parish: | HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Full description
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In the 1930s Berry Wiggins & co. established an oil refinery on the site of the former RNAS Kingsnorth site reusing many of the same buildings and a jetty. The site was not well placed to access deep water, however, and in due course Berry Wiggins constructed a 2.5 km long jetty. (1)
<1> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project. |
