Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 07/07/07

Amended description following Phase 1 of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey:

A new wharf built as part of Richborough Port (MWX43487), a major WWI port serving Allied troops on the Western Front [1]. The wharf was built on land reclaimed from marshy ground around the Stour and comprised wharfage and associated railway sidings. The site was decommissioned following WWI and an attempt was made to run it as commercial port by the Queenborough Development Co. [1]. This enterprise was unsuccessful and the facility was brought back in to military use in WWII. The site appears to have been particularly associated with the preparations for the D-Day landings. A US Air Force vertical aerial photograph taken in April 1944 shows a bustling facility with its sidings full of carriages and landing craft and also extra pontoon jetties constructed along the wharf [2].

The site has been extensively redeveloped in the later 20th century and it is not clear whether there are any remains of this facility.

Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). SKE14164.

<1> Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). Ske14164.