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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 87 NE 115 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Yantlet firing range, Isle of Grain |
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Summary
Site of Yantlet range firing point and associated structures. A firing range for testing heavy artillery. In use between 1917 and 1950, uncertain if still in use today?
| Grid Reference: | TQ 8690 7720 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ87NE |
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| Parish: | ISLE OF GRAIN, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Concrete firing point for testing heavy artillery and subsid. structures. Contains rarity value (1), site photographs (2,3) and references to other defence sites and features in Kent (4).
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9553.
<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9554.
<4> Kent County Council, 1999, Survey of Kent post-1500 defence sites, KD88 (Index). SWX11828.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites. |
| <2> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4014. print. |
| <3> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4016. print. |
| <4> | Index: Kent County Council. 1999. Survey of Kent post-1500 defence sites. KD88. |
