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Monument details
HER Number: | MWX43968 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | WWII probable bomb crater, Upstreet |
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Summary
WWII probable bomb crater visible in 1946, located near Upstreet. The crater was no longer visible on Google Earth photography taken in 2003 or on MasterMap dating to 2009.
Grid Reference: | TR 21694 62810 |
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Map Sheet: | TR26SW |
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Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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WWII probable bomb crater visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 [1], located near Upstreet. As this site was not visible on the Ordnance Survey 1938 edition [2] it dates to WWII. The crater was an irregular circular shape of roughly 16m in diameter. It was no longer visible on Google Earth photography taken in 2003 [3] or on MasterMap dating to 2009 [4].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photographs exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<2> Ordnance Survey, 1928-1947, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947, 1938/1:2500 (Map). Ske12644.
<3> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 17-FEB-2011 (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<4> Ordnance Survey, 2009, OS MasterMap, 2009/MasterMap (Cartographic materials). SWX15710.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <2> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1928-1947. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947. 1938/1:2500. |
<3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 17-FEB-2011. |
<4> | Cartographic materials: Ordnance Survey. 2009. OS MasterMap. 2009/MasterMap. |