Guess the Place

[MartinR]

Good guess, but no dice.

[grandarog]

Quick guess Detling Airfield.

[Stewie]

Location of Chart:

• Nat Grid:                   TR 00967 61240
• Nearest Post Code:  ME13 7SE
• Co-ords (WGS84):    51°18'53"N,000°52'57"E or 51.314769,0.882362

Right, here's the next one.  Clearly a WWII pill box (zero marks for that) but where?

Just to correct Martin R the actual answer is Oare Gunpowder works country park at post code ME13 7UD and not Chart as you stated in your reply. Your picture was correctly captioned though!.

[MartinR]

Location of Chart:

• Nat Grid:                   TR 00967 61240
• Nearest Post Code:  ME13 7SE
• Co-ords (WGS84):    51°18'53"N,000°52'57"E or 51.314769,0.882362

Right, here's the next one.  Clearly a WWII pill box (zero marks for that) but where?

[Stewie]

Well done Martin R my footballing analogy about having the ball cleared off the line (i.e. a last attempt to prevent a goal), related to your rejecting the Oare Gunpowder works earlier!
For those who have followed Bernard Cornwell's 'The Last Kingdom' series, in the book 'Sword of Kings' Uhtred comes to Oare Creek on route to Faversham to rescue the mother of the future King Athelstan.
We thought Oare Gunpowder works to be worth a day out (combined with a trip to Standard Quay). Its very photogenic but we would like to return when the visitor centre is open which is on Sundays I think. 
Over to you Martin R 

[MartinR]

Grr, does Chart have two sets of stones?  I've found the image below on GoogleImage.

Attribution: David Anstiss / Machinery in the Mill House, Oare Gunpowder Works

[Stewie]

Martin R


Might I suggest that you reconsider your analysis specifically your ignore list? A quick look at some images on Google for potential sites might assist your quest!

[MartinR]

Well the only waterways in ME13 are Faversham Creek, Oare Creek and the Swale.  Looking for visitor centres, the only one I can see is Standard Wharf, but that didn't have any grindstones in it last time I visited.  I've not seen inside the visitor centre at Harty Ferry.  For both of those though the building are wrong.
We have:

• ME13 (Faversham area)
• Waterway, ponds and trees
• Uhtred Uhtredson moored his ship not far from here (which makes sense with a waterway).
• Large grinding wheel
• Turquoise painted single storey wooden building with brick-built one beyond.  Trees in the background and trees in front of the building judging by the shade.

We can ignore:

• Oare gunpowder mill, that seems to just be a ruin in a country park.
• Chart, wrong type of stones.
• Gunpowder Mill,can't find the buildings in the pub grounds.
• Standard Wharf, can't find/remember the buildings.
• Harty Ferry, again the buildings are wrong.
• Brogdale, no waterway, and I don't recall the buildings.
• Faversham Visitor Centre, not on a waterway.

Is it visible on GSV?

[Stewie]

ME13 postcode

[Stewie]

Martin R You are certainly the closest so far. The place has a visitor centre although not opened when we visited, and some nice walks alongside waterways, ponds and trees. 🤓👍

[MartinR]

My definition of a football match: "a couple of dozen hooligans kicking a pig's bladder around a paddock, watched by a herd of sheep", so you can guess how well footballing analogies work!  You said "cleared off the line", so am I barking up the wrong tree with Faversham?

[Stewie]

Sorry JohnWalker no, but Martin R has now gone from hitting the post to a shot cleared off the line!

[John Walker]

Anything to do with the spirit distillery next to Chatham Dockyard?

[Stewie]

Another clue, Uhtred Uhtredson moored his ship not far from here in one of the 'Last Kingdom' series novels.

[MartinR]

• Well it can't be Oare gunpowder mill, that seems to just be a ruin in a country park.
• I can't find photos of Dartford gunpowder mill.
• It's not Chart, wrong type of stones.
• Gunpowder Mill, Faversham is a pub which doesn't seem to have any substantive connection with an actual mill.

I may be hitting goal posts, but to keep the sporting analogy, I'm stumped.
Alternatively, is it some other sort of mill in Faversham?  Part of the Shepherd Neame outfit for instance?