Stansgate Spit

Stansgate Spit is a locality in Isle of Grain, Medway, England. Stansgate Spit is situated nearby to the locality Saltpan Reach, as well as near Port Victoria.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Medway Power Station and Dummy Battery.

Medway Power Station

Power station

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Medway Power Station is a 735 megawatts gas-fired combined cycle gas turbine power station on the Isle of Grain in Kent adjacent to the River Medway, about 44 miles east of London. It started to supply electricity to the national grid in 1995.

Dummy Battery

Fort

Photo: Phillip Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Dummy Battery, originally known as Grain Battery, is a disused fortified gun battery located about 1 kilometre south of the village of Grain, Kent at the confluence of the Rivers Thames and Medway. Dummy Battery is situated 2½ miles northeast of Stansgate Spit.

Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Parish Church of the Holy Trinity is situated 2½ miles east of Stansgate Spit.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rushenden and Blue Town.

Rushenden

Village

Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rushenden is a village on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in Kent, England, of approximately 500 dwellings. It lies to the south of Queenborough. Rushenden is situated 2½ miles southeast of Stansgate Spit.

Blue Town

Suburb

Blue Town is a suburb of the town of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. It sits on the A249 Brielle Way which runs from Queenborough to Sheerness. Blue Town is situated 3 miles northeast of Stansgate Spit.

Sheerness

Town

Photo: Penny Mayes, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Sheerness is a port town and civil parish beside the mouth of the River Medway on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey in north Kent, England. With a population of 13,249, it is the second largest town on the island after the nearby town of Minster which has a population of 16,738. Sheerness is situated 3½ miles east of Stansgate Spit.

Stansgate Spit

Type: Locality
Location: Isle of Grain, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.42207° or 51° 25′ 20″ north

Longitude

0.6905° or 0° 41′ 26″ east

Open location code

9F32CMCR+R5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 254460151

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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