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The Isle of Grain, (OE Greon meaning gravel) is in north Kent, England at the eastern end of the Hoo peninsula. The Isle, even today in the northern part, is almost all marshland. The Grain Marshes are an important habitat for birdlife. The Isle constitutes a civil parish, which according to the 2001 census had a population of 1,731. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1152x872, 188 KB) Summary Author User:SilkTork Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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Kent is a county in England, south-east of London. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my [birth]right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages English (de facto) Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked...
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In England a civil parish (usually just parish) is the lowest unit of local government, lower than districts or counties. ...
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The Isle of Grain is the easternmost end of the Hoo Peninsula. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
History The following extract is taken from the Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland by John Gorton, 1833: Graine, Isle of A parish in the Hundred of Hoo, lathe of Aylesford, opposite to Sheppey at the mouth of the Thames; it is about 3.5 miles long and 2.5 miles broad and is formed by Yantlet Creek running from the Medway to the Thames. The Creek was filled up, and had a road across it for 40 years until 1823, when the lord mayor ordered it to be again reopened, so as to give about eight feet navigation for barges at spring tide; thus saving a distance of fourteen miles into the Medway, and avoiding the danger of going round by the Nore. Michael Berry Savory. ...
The tide is the regular rising and falling of the oceans surface caused by changes in gravitational forces external to the Earth. ...
The Thames (pronounced //) is a river flowing through southern England and connecting London with the sea. ...
The closure of the road caused considerable anger among the residents of the Island and it was later reopened. The problem of reaching London by a less circuitous route was later to be addressed by the Thames and Medway Canal, which plan, too, was not a success. The Thames and Medway Canal is a now-disused canal in the south east of England, in Kent. ...
In 1855, as part of military defences guarding the Thames, Grain Tower, a fort, was built. It remained in use until 1946, having been used during both World Wars. In earlier times the incidence of marsh fever (Malaria) was extremely high. 1918 saw Britain's last recorded outbreak of the disease. 1855 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ...
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Red blood cell infected with Malaria, derived from male aria (Italian for bad air) and formerly called ague or marsh fever in English, is an infectious disease which causes about 350-500 million infections with humans and approximately 1. ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
The Isle today The south of the Isle is an important industrial area. Until 1982 it was home to a major oil refinery. Construction of this facility for BP took from 1948 to 1952, and it suffered flooding almost immediately when the North Sea flood of 1953 breached the sea wall. The site is now part-occupied by Thamesport, the UK's third largest container port. The remainder is allocated for industrial and warehousing use under the Thames Gateway project. 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
View of Shell Oil Refinery in Martinez, California. ...
This article is about the corporation known as BP. See also BP (disambiguation) BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) (NYSE: BP) is a petroleum company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. ...
The North Sea Flood of 1953 and the associated storm combined to create a major natural disaster which affected the coastlines of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands on the night of 31 January 1953 – 1 February 1953. ...
Containerization is a system of intermodal cargo transport using standard ISO containers (also known as isotainers) that can be loaded on container ships, railroad cars, and trucks. ...
The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching 40 miles eastwards from East London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary. ...
Next to the BP site is Grain power station, built in the 1970s, which burns oil. It was mothballed in 2003, but reopened in 2006 and as of 2006 provides up to three percent of the National Grid supply. There are plans to build a new, gas-fired power station alongside to replace Grain power station when it reaches the end of its design life. Oil power plant in Iraq A power station or power plant is a facility for the generation of electric power. ...
2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The National Grid is the high-voltage electric power transmission network in Great Britain, connecting power stations and major substations and ensuring that electricity generated anywhere in Great Britain can be used to satisfy demand elsewhere. ...
Another major instillation is a new Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import facility. Segments of the Channel Tunnel were also manufactured in the area. The British terminal at Cheriton, from the Pilgrims Way. ...
A suggestion to site a new London international airport to lie west of the Isle on the Cliffe Marshes aroused a lot of local opposition, as well as from environmental groups such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. It is still not completely written off. Cliffe-at-Hoo, known as Cliffe, is a village on the Hoo peninsula in Kent, England, reached from the Medway Towns by a three-mile journey along the B2000. ...
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europes largest wildlife conservation charity. ...
The Isle of Grain also has many tunnels running underground. People are not permitted to enter these tunnels as they are dangerous. They go into the centre of the village and out to the martella tower.
The martella tower was used during the war. There used to be a chain with a huge net on fitted to it. This went from straight across the two rivers stopping any u-boats getting through.
Settlements The ancient village of Grain, at one time, as shown on an 1801 map, called Grain, or St James in the Isle of Grain. Like others in the Hundred of Hoo, the village was called after the dedication of its parish church - cp Allhallows (= All Saints), Hoo St Mary, Hoo St Werburgh. The small village of Grain takes its name from the Isle of Grain, on which it is virtually the only settlement. ...
Allhallows could be Allhallows, Cumbria Allhallows, Kent This article consisting of geographical locations is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ...
Hoo St Werburgh is one of several villages on the Hoo Peninsula to bear the name Hoo. ...
Wallend is the other settlement, and is almost entirely industrial.
Port Victoria Local historian Alan Bignell gives this description of the new port and accompanying railway: In the late 1870s the South Eastern Railway decided to promote a line through the (Hoo) district, with a view to competing for the traffic from London to Sheerness, formerly an almost unchallenged stronghold of the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. For some years past a steamer had been running from Sheerness to Strood, whence South Eastern trains gave a connection to London. ... the journey was of some length, along the rather tortuous course of the Medway. In 1879 the South Eastern obtained an act for a branch leaving their North Kent line at a point about (3.5 miles) from Gravesend ... to Stoke ... In the following year powers were obtained for an extension, (3.5 miles) long, to St James, in the Isle of Grain, where a deep-water pier was to be built on the Medway. A ferry was to connect the new pier with Sheerness ... Map sources for Sheerness at grid reference TQ919749 Sheerness is a town on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, England. ...
Crest of the LCDR on the first Blackfriars Railway Bridge The London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) was a railway company that operated in south-eastern England between 1859 and 1923 before grouping with three other companies to form the Southern Railway. ...
Location within the British Isles. ...
Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. ...
The railway was opened throughout on September 11 1882. The pier was built for passenger traffic and Queen Victoria was indeed a passenger. Bignell records that: she "... took a rather curious fancy to Grain as a chosen departure point for trips to Germany" and there are claims that Port Victoria "was built essentially as a railway station at the end of a line from Windsor".
The project was not a success and the ferry service was withdrawn in 1901, and the pier fell into disuse. It was closed in 1951, and the 1.75 miles of line taken up. The site is now occupied by the industrial sprawl.
From about 1912 a seaplane station was positioned at Grain by the Admiralty. From the beginning of World War I regular patrols were made along the Thames estuary from this station, as part of English channel defences. In 1914 Port Victoria became an Royal Navy air plane repair depot, adjacent to the station. Activities at these bases declined after 1918, until in 1924 defence cuts saw their closure. See also under Stoke, Kent: large airship base. Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total: 8 million Full list Military dead: 3 million Civilian dead: 3 million Total: 6 million Full...
Satellite view of the English Channel The English Channel (French: La Manche, IPA: , the sleeve), also for some time known in England as the British Sea, is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean that separates the island of Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the...
The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the British armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ...
Stoke is a village and civil parish on the Hoo Peninsula in the borough of Medway in Kent. ...
But soon the course of the ship opens the entrance of the Medway, with its men-of-war moored in line, and the long wooden jetty of Port Victoria, with its few low buildings like the beginning of a hasty settlement upon a wild and unexplored shore. The famous Thames barges sit in brown clusters upon the water with an effect of birds floating upon a pond. —Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea The distinctive sailing barges that were once a common sight on Londons River Thames, were commercial craft relying on sail power alone. ...
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References - "Government decision holds key to Grain's £350m future" (15 Jan 2006) Kent on Sunday p15
- Medway local government Plans for site of former BP oil refinery
- Historic Kent More about Grain
- Bignell, Alan (1999). The Kent Village Book
External links - Multimap Satellite photo of the Isle of Grain
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