Damhead Creek power station
Damhead Creek power station is a 792 MWe gas-fired power station in Kent, England, on the Hoo Peninsula, It is near the site of the decommissioned Kingsnorth power station. The plant entered service in February 2001.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Anstiss, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Power station
- Description: Gas-fired power station in Kent, England
- Also known as: “Damhead Creek Power Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Church of St Werburgh, Hoo.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Church
Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Peter and St Paul is situated 1½ miles northeast of Damhead Creek power station.
Church of St Werburgh, Hoo
Church
Photo: Ifor R Griffiths, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Werburgh, Hoo is situated 1½ miles west of Damhead Creek power station.
Church of St Margaret
Church
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Margaret is situated 2½ miles northwest of Damhead Creek power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gillingham and Brompton.
Gillingham
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gillingham is a town on the River Medway in the north of the English county of Kent. Together with its neighbouring towns of Rochester and Chatham it forms a large urban area known as the Medway Towns.
Brompton
Village
Photo: Chris Whippet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brompton is a suburban village situated between the town centres of Gillingham and Chatham, lying adjacent to Chatham Dockyard in Medway, Kent, England. Its name means "a farmstead where broom grows" — broom is a small yellow flowering shrub. Brompton is situated 3½ miles southwest of Damhead Creek power station.
Wainscott
Village
Photo: Richard Dorrell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wainscott is a small village in Rochester, in Kent, England. It is in the civil parish of Frindsbury Extra, in the Medway Unitary Authority, that is Medway Council. Wainscott is situated 4 miles west of Damhead Creek power station.
Damhead Creek power station
- Categories: natural gas-fired power station and industry
- Location: Hoo St Werburgh, Medway, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4254° or 51° 25′ 31″ northLongitude
0.6008° or 0° 36′ 3″ eastOperator
ScottishPowerOpen location code
9F32CJG2+58OpenStreetMap ID
way 814351698OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=industrialWikidata ID
Q5212205
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Bokmål—“Damhead Creek power station” goes by many names.
- German: “Kraftwerk Damhead Creek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Damhead Creek gasskraftverk”
- Norwegian: “Damhead Creek gasskraftverk”
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