A brick works operated south of Burham on the east bank of the Medway prior to 1868, and brick field leases from Lord Aylesford for the site date from 1800, but works had closed down by 1897 and been replaced by a cement works on the same site from c1878. Called the West Kent Cement Works it was a small site with a closely grouped complex of three principal buildings and eight wash backs behind them. No tramway seems to have connected the works with a supply of chalk, pits adjacent previously used for the extraction of clay for brickmaking were disused. The site was closed by 1909. The site has been cleared.There are the remains of a wharf.

<1> N/A, Ordnance Survey Map. Old Monarch record with attached monuments, OS 1st, 2nd & 3rd Ed. maps (1868, 1897 & 1908) (Map). SKE6458.

<2> Preston, J. M., 1977, Industrial Medway: An Historical Survey, Page Nos. 174 (Monograph). SKE6455.