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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 75 NE 285 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Tar paving factory |
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Summary
Nineteenth century tar paving factory.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7509 5799 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ75NE |
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| Parish: | MAIDSTONE, MAIDSTONE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- TAR WORKS (TAR WORKS, Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Full description
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A field survey in the grounds of the Allington Castle located the site of a C19 Tar-paving factory next to a possbile trackway. The factory appears on the OS 1908 map Scale 1:25000 but was demolished around this time. Factory NGR= TQ 7509 5799 (1)
<1> Untitled Source, Arch South East field survey report 1997 (Unpublished document). SKE6451.
<1> Archaeology South-East, 1997, An Archaeological Field Survey of the Grounds of Allington Castle, Maidstone (Unpublished document). SKE16779.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: Archaeology South-East. 1997. An Archaeological Field Survey of the Grounds of Allington Castle, Maidstone. |
| <1> | Unpublished document: Arch South East field survey report 1997. |
