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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 1371 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War radar station, Deangate Ridge |
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Summary
A Second World War radar station accompanied by possible gun emplacements, storage areas, military support buildings and access roads, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7645 7299 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A Second World War radar station accompanied by possible gun emplacements, storage areas, military support buildings and access roads, is visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944 and has been mapped as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. The site comprises an octagonal gun laying radar mat, known as a GL mat, at the centre of which is a receiver reached by a walkway. Although the footprint of the radar installation appears on the 1944 photographs, it is not clear whether the site was still in use at that date. The site is clearly grassed over and disused on aerial photographs taken in 1945. Small spots possibly representing gun emplacements, arranged in a rough arc to the north of the GL mat, could possibly indicate the location of a rocket projector or HAA battery. (1,2)
<1> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.
<2> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project. |
| <2> | Digital archive: Historic England. 2012. National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula. |
