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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 1115
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Canterbury South station

Summary

Site of railway station on the Elham Valley Line opened 1887 in and closed in 1947.


Grid Reference:TR 153 564
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • RAILWAY STATION (Post Medieval to Modern - 1889 AD to 1947 AD)

Full description

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The station served the Elham Valley Railway. Opened in 1889, it was closed in 1947. The station was a timber-framed corrugated-iron structure. It was demolished sometime in the 1960s.

From The National Monuments Record:
Site of railway station on the Elham Valley Line opened 1887 in and closed in 1947.

Historic England archive material: BF006323 CANTERBURY SOUTH STATION, CANTERBURY


<1> Thames Valley Archaeological Services, 2002, Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKe8109.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYUnpublished document: Thames Valley Archaeological Services. 2002. Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment. [Mapped feature: #68515 railway station, ]

Related records

TR 14 NE 10Parent of: Elham Valley Line (Monument)