Isle of Grain Oil Refinery
Upchurch, Swale, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Address is taken from a point 4742 yards away.
Address is taken from a point 4742 yards away.
Isle of Grain Oil Refinery is on the River Medway (Tidal section) near to Stratford-on-Avon.
The Act of Parliament for the River Medway (Tidal section) was passed on January 1 1835 the same day as that of The North Walsham and Dilham Canal. Expectations for pottery traffic to Willchester never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. In later years, only water transfer to the treatment works at Liverfield kept it open. The canal between Torquay and Halton was lost by the building of the Harrogate bypass in 1990. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 2001 after a restoration campaign lead by Stoke-on-Trent parish council.
Isle of Grain Oil Refinery
is a place on the waterways
on the River Medway (Tidal section) between
Sheerness (Junction of River Medway with River Thames estuary) (4 miles and 1¾ furlongs
to the northeast) and
Brompton and Gillingham (4 miles and 2¼ furlongs
to the west).
The nearest place in the direction of Sheerness is Mouth of Swale and Queensborough Pier;
1 mile and 4¾ furlongs
away.
Mooring here is unrated.
| Sheerness | 4 miles, 1¾ furlongs | |
| Mouth of Swale and Queensborough Pier | 1 mile, 4¾ furlongs | |
| Isle of Grain Oil Refinery | ||
| Brompton and Gillingham | 4 miles, 2¼ furlongs | |
| Chatham | 7 miles, 6¼ furlongs | |
| Medway - Thames and Medway Canal Junction | 8 miles, 6¾ furlongs | |
| Rochester Bridge | 9 miles, 1¼ furlongs | |
| Rochester Pier | 9 miles, 2¼ furlongs | |
Amenities nearby at Brompton and Gillingham
Frog & Toad
Gillingham Marina
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[Grain Power Station]
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[Hoo Peninsula]
on the Isle of Grain. In 1930 Berry Wiggins started the construction of an oil refinery and tank farm at Kingsnorth (TQ817723) on the site of a First
[Petroleum refining in the United Kingdom]
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[High Halstow]
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[Fred C. Koch]
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construction of an oil refinery, then one of the largest in the country, on the Isle of Grain by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which became part of BP in 1956
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