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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 SE 240
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of Second World War military camp

Summary

A second World War of unknown purpose lay south of Ratcliffe Highway. In 1946 aerial photographs the camp appears to consist of a number of barrack blocks, other buildings and possible gun emplacements around a parade ground.


Grid Reference:TQ 7764 7302
Map Sheet:TQ77SE
Parish:HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT

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A second World War of unknown purpose lay south of Ratcliffe Highway. In 1946 aerial photographs the camp appears to consist of a number of barrack blocks, other buildings and possible gun emplacements around a parade ground.(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.