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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 SW 44 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of former Sheerness Pier |
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Summary
Sheerness Pier, built for packet ships
| Grid Reference: | TQ 9087 7484 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97SW |
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| Parish: | SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PIER (Demolished 1971, Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 1971 AD (between))
Full description
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Built by Sheerness Pier Commission in mid-19thC for packet ships and partly destroyed by storm in 1897. Taken over by Sheerness Disatrict Council who improved it by adding a pier head building and toll house complerted in 1899. Traffic at the pier dwindled after Kingsferry Bridge opened. Pier hit by barge in 1946 and repaired but finally closed in1958. Demolished 1971. (1) Pier some 4500m long with a c30x40m platform at the end (TQ 9109 7487). Deck c25m wide for the first 1000m (2). Site photographs (3-7). Site indicated on 1st, 2nd and 3rd OS map editions (8-10).
<1> Mickleburgh, t 1988 'Guide to British piers' (2nd ed.) (OS Card Reference). SKE47194.
<2> OS 1:2500 1959 (OS Card Reference). SKE48202.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9556.
<4> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9810.
<5> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9993.
<6> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9995.
<7> 1942, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9997.
<8> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.
<9> Ordnance Survey, 1893-7, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898 (Map). SWX11832.
<10> Ordnance Survey, 1905-10, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912 (Map). SWX11833.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Mickleburgh, t 1988 'Guide to British piers' (2nd ed.). |
| <2> | OS Card Reference: OS 1:2500 1959. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4023. print. |
| <4> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4012. print. |
| <5> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 19. print. |
| <6> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 22. print. |
| <7> | Photograph (Print): 1942. Photograph. 26. print. |
| <8> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. |
| <9> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1893-7. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 2nd edition : 1893-1898. 1:2500. |
| <10> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1905-10. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 3rd edition: 1901-1912. 1:2500. |
