TQ 57 SW 33 - Dartford Mills - Historic Environment Record

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Monument record TQ 57 SW 33 - Dartford Mills

Summary

The remains of the 19th century gunpowder works of Pigou, Wilks and Lawrence. Foundations of three incorporating mills, excavated in the 1980s. Each mill consists of a pair of rectangular mill houses, each about 20 ft. square and set one on each side of a deep water channel, or mill race. each mill race originally contained a large circular water-wheel which powered huge millstones in each mill-house. John Spilman erected the first English paper mill to be worked as a commercial success about the year 1585. In 1580 he had converted one or both of the mills (which came to him with the Manor of Bicknors) into a paper mill, and five years later saw the successful start of paper-making in Dartford. All trace of this mill has disappeared, but it was probably situated near what became later the Powder Mills of Messrs. Pigou, Wilks and Lawrence, on the right bank of the Darent and south of Powder Mill Lane.

Location

Grid reference	TQ 5479 7290 (point) FCE
Map sheet	TQ57SW
County	KENT
District	DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish	DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT

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<1> Hist. & Ants. of Dartford, 1844, pp.305-7. (J. Dunkin) (OS Card Reference). SKE44060.

<2> Dartford Historical Notes 1933, p.395. (S.K. Kayes) (OS Card Reference). SKE39646.

<3> F1 CFW 11-NOV-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE42533.

<4> Kent Arch Review No.75 (1984) 112-3. (OS Card Reference). SKE45873.

<5> Brian Philp, 1984, The Dartford Gunpowder Mills (Bibliographic reference). SKE13072.

<6> Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 33 - November, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE3141.

<7> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, A2/A282 Dartford improvements: Historic environment assessment, CAT, 1994. (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<8> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1994 Jan, A2/A282 Dartford - Historic Environmental Assessment (Unpublished document). SWX6767.

<9> RCHME, 1995, Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary (Unpublished document). SKE17329.

<10> Philp, B. J., 2002, Archaeology in the Front Line: 50 Years of Kent Rescue 1952 - 2002 (Monograph). SKE11928.

Sources/Archives (10)

<1> SKE44060 OS Card Reference: Hist. & Ants. of Dartford, 1844, pp.305-7. (J. Dunkin).
<2> SKE39646 OS Card Reference: Dartford Historical Notes 1933, p.395. (S.K. Kayes).
<3> SKE42533 OS Card Reference: F1 CFW 11-NOV-59.
<4> SKE45873 OS Card Reference: Kent Arch Review No.75 (1984) 112-3..
<5> SKE13072 Bibliographic reference: Brian Philp. 1984. The Dartford Gunpowder Mills.
<6> SKE3141 Bibliographic reference: Field report for monument TQ 57 SW 33 - November, 1959.
<7> SKE6440 Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. A2/A282 Dartford improvements: Historic environment assessment, CAT, 1994..
<8> SWX6767 Unpublished document: Canterbury Archaeological Trust. 1994 Jan. A2/A282 Dartford - Historic Environmental Assessment.
<9> SKE17329 Unpublished document: RCHME. 1995. Thames Gateway: Recording Historic Buildings And Landscapes On The Thames Estuary.
<10> SKE11928 Monograph: Philp, B. J.. 2002. Archaeology in the Front Line: 50 Years of Kent Rescue 1952 - 2002.

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Related Events/Activities (2)

Non-Intrusive Event: DARTFORD GUNPOWDER MILLS (Ref: EI 14863) (EKE3880)
Intrusive Event: Watching brief at Gunpowder Mills, Dartford (Ref: 1994/306) (EKE8309)

Record last edited

May 12 2021 5:53PM