HVDC Britned
HVDC Britned is an industrial building in Isle of Grain, Medway, England. HVDC Britned is situated nearby to the beach Cockleshell Hard, as well as near the power station Grain CHP.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dummy Battery and Grain Fort.
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 3,300 feet northeast of HVDC Britned.
Grain Fort
Fort
Grain Fort is a former artillery fort located just east of the village of Grain, Kent. It was constructed in the 1860s to defend the confluence of the Rivers Medway and Thames during a period of tension with France. Grain Fort is situated 1¼ miles north of HVDC Britned.
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. Medway Power Station is situated 1¼ miles west of HVDC Britned.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blue Town and Sheerness.
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.
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 2 miles east of HVDC Britned.
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 HVDC Britned.
HVDC Britned
- Type: Industrial building
- Categories: building and industry
- Location: Isle of Grain, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.44021° or 51° 26′ 25″ northLongitude
0.71685° or 0° 43′ 1″ eastOpen location code
9F32CPR8+3POpenStreetMap ID
way 243064526OpenStreetMap feature
building=industrial
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