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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 96 NW 63 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Kingsferry bridge |
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Summary
Kingsferry Bridge (lift bridge across Swale to Isle of Sheppey)
| Grid Reference: | TQ 9144 6929 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ96NW |
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| Parish: | IWADE, SWALE, KENT |
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| QUEENBOROUGH, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BRIDGE (BRIDGE, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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Kingsferry Bridge, initially a rail bridge opened in 1860 by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, indicated on chart (1). A single rail track with a roadway on the E side. A small lifting span in the centre with machinery control room housed in two buildings built over the roadway. The lifting mechanism and counterweights were situated over the rail track. Central section subsequently replaced. The present bridge was opened in 1960 (built to designs by Mott, Hay and Anderson) and included a central lifting section with four vertical tracks set into four reinforced concrete towers, site photographs (2-5). Site identified during 2002 survey while earlier bridge footings comprise several courses of brickwork on foreshore. Bricks are frogged. (6).
<1> Chearnley, 1918, East Swale (Chart). SWX8148.
<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9583.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9584.
<4> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10343.
<5> 2000, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10344.
<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2002, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Field Assessment (Pilot) (Bibliographic reference). SWX11840.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Chart: Chearnley. 1918. East Swale. chart. |
| <2> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4145. print. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4147. print. |
| <4> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 93. print. |
| <5> | Photograph (Print): 2000. Photograph. 95. print. |
| <6> | Bibliographic reference: Wessex Archaeology. 2002. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Phase II: Field Assessment (Pilot). |
