Chart Gunpowder Mill By Penny Mayes
Chart Gunpowder Mill By Penny Mayes

Faversham Gunpowder Mills

By the 1680s the Faversham gunpowder industry was well established but the arrival of skilled Huguenot refugees from France gave it fresh impetus. In 1759 the government established a factory of its own here. By 1786 there were three powder factories in the Faversham area – the Home, the oldest, and the only one actually in the town, Oare, second-oldest, situated 1 ½ miles west of the town, and the Marsh, about 1 mile to the north west. The government factories, the Home and the Marsh, were known as the Royal Gunpowder Mills. During the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), the Huguenot employees of the Royal Gunpowder Mills produced explosives used against their home country. 

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