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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 97 SW 45 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Queenborough old pier (site) & modern landing pier |
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Summary
Site of old (1876) ferry pier presently occupied by modern landing pier
| Grid Reference: | TQ 9064 7211 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ97SW |
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| Parish: | QUEENBOROUGH, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PIER (Built 1876, Post Medieval to Modern - 1876 AD to 1955 AD (between))
Full description
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Queenborough Old Pier opened in 1876, destroyed by fire in 1882. Rebuilt but damaged in a second fire in 1900. Built as a landing stage for theFlushing Ferry and a connection to the main line railway.Operated in these capacities until 1914. Used by the Admiralty in WW2. Railway tracks on the pier taken up shortly before demolition in 1955. A modern landing stage is situated on the site (1) and site photograph (2).
<1> Mickleburgh, T 1988 'Guide to British piers' (2nd ed.) p.127 (OS Card Reference). SKE47195.
<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9570.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | OS Card Reference: Mickleburgh, T 1988 'Guide to British piers' (2nd ed.) p.127. |
| <2> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4058. print. |
