Guess the Place

[CAT]

Many thanks stuartwaters


I remember sitting on the steps of the granary eating a sandwich after walking there from Canterbury one distant summers day. Then the owner use to leave the door open and the steps in place so you could inspect the interior, which then was all complete with its stowage bins either side of a central walkway.


Here is my next offering, which despite possessing a name of another Kentish town on its façade is a fair distance from it. It can be seen from the road on Google Streetview, but due to roadside trees not clearly from this direction.

[John Walker]

A fascinating story of your family tree Stuart.  Something to be very proud of.

[stuartwaters]

CAT has it, well done!


The maternal side of my family has a memorial stone in the cemetery there. Because that side of my family are Romany Gypsies who had settled in the area and because many years ago the church authorities would not allow them to be buried in consecrated ground, they were buried outside or cremated and paid for a stone to be put up with their names carved on it. My Grandmother, my mum and uncles' names are engraved on the stone, along with various cousins. My Grandmother married my Grandfather in the church there too in 1927.


Over to you CAT.

[CAT]

looks a bit like the one outside the entrance to Coldred Court Farm, Coldred. Itself next to St Pancras' Church, Coldred?

[stuartwaters]

Nope, not there JW.

[John Walker]

Monkton ?   There used to be one beside St Mary Magdalene Church that I passed on my way to work.  However, It seems to have gone now as I can't see it on GSV.

[johnfilmer]

My turn to keep quiet 


I found it by sheer luck. On GSV the steps are laid down, very sensible as rodents love an easy climb.

[stuartwaters]

Probably is a granary. Near a major trunk road. East Kent. Virtually next door to a church.

[grandarog]

Don't know wherebut tis a Granary on Staddle Stones.

[John Walker]

Quick guess - Kent Rural Life Museum, Maidstone ?

[MartinR]

Very close to a motorway?  Near water?

[stuartwaters]

Thanks John. Try this one - where is this?

[MartinR]

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.41292&lon=0.56302&layers=6&b=1
Instead of the usual location information, follow the link above.  Use the slider bottom right to switch between today's aerial view and the original map.  If you look carefully you can see crop markings along the routes of some of the tramways and vestigial remains of trackways as footpaths.

[johnfilmer]

It is Hoo, I believe now the marina, caravan park and “port”. Well done Stuart.


Your description of the forts is correct, and if I had been built in 1669 I think I would be sliding into the Medway! The two forts were built in response to the Dutch raid up the Medway.


Over to you.

[stuartwaters]

I found one, so here goes. The 1669 structure is Cockham Wood Fort, the remains of which are slowly falling into the Medway between Hoo and Upnor.


The other Fort was Fort Gillingham, a tower like structure which stood at the northern end of the Chatham Lines. Fort Amherst stands at the other end. Fort Gillingham was blown up and the northern end of the Chatham Lines demolished to make way for the construction of the locks and No3 Basin when the Chatham Royal Dockyard was extended between 1868 and 1878.


Both forts were built in response to the Dutch Raid on the Medway in June of 1667.


So, the map shows brickworks on the northern bank of the River Medway between Lower Upnor and Hoo.