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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 67 SW 1018 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Northfleet Hope Lighthouse |
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Summary
Northfleet Hope Lighthouse is shown on this historic OS mapping of the area. The lighthouse does not look to have survived and the area is today occupoied by a car park (location accurate to the nearest 10m based on available information)
| Parish: | GRAVESEND, GRAVESHAM, KENT |
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Monument Types
- LIGHTHOUSE (first mentioned 1870, Post Medieval to Modern - 1870 AD? to 1950 AD?)
Full description
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Northfleet Hope Lighthouse indicated on the 1st ed OS map (1). It is still present in the fourth edition OS (2) Whole area IS NOW built over by Lafarge Bluecircle Cements. No remains of a lighthouse noted during the 2005 coastal survey, today the area is occupied by a car park, it is not known wherther there are below ground remains. (3)
<1> Ordnance Survey, 1858-73, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897 (Map). SWX11831.
<2> Ordnance Survey, 1928-1947, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947 (Map). SKE12644.
<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1858-73. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1872-1897. 1:2500. |
| <2> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1928-1947. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report. |
