Port Richborough

Port Richborough

Port Richborough is situated some three miles north of Sandwich, Kent.

This Industrial Port was built during World War One to service troop and equipment movements to/from the Western Front, mostly to Calais and Dunkerque.

Served by extensive freight sidings on the SER South Eastern Railway and to a lesser extent by the East Kent Light Railway, Port Richborough was the home to the world's first roll-on, roll-off ferry service.

Today, much of the southern part of the site formerly HMS Robertson is the UK headquarters of the pharmaceutical giant Pfizers. Whilst the northern part is used for industrial storage and Richborough Power Station. Little of the old port complex remains except for the wharf wall on the River Stour used until the 1990s by Bretts as a shingle and bulk materials transit point.

During the final years of operation of the power station, Orimulsion a fuel emulsion origination from the Orinoco Basin was offloaded here.

It is served by frequent buses between Ramsgate and Sandwich.


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