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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 NW 1206
Type of record:Building
Name:Royal Observer Corps Post, Cliffe

Summary

Cold War Royal Observer Corps post, closed in 1967


Grid Reference:TQ 7324 7652
Map Sheet:TQ77NW
Parish:CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

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Shaft blocked with concrete, surface structures in fair condition and recognisable. Some posts of boundary fence still in place. Site heavily overgrown. Built as part of Cold War precautions to monitor Nuclear blasts and radiation.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey : From side of road, easy to access.
Tourism Potential : Limited
Condition : moderate
Date of visit : 11/12/06

Underground concrete bunker with vertical access shaft and one main chamber. Sound condition but interior fittings stripped out. (1)


D. Wood, 01/01/75, Attack Warning Red (Article in monograph). SKE14261.

D. Wood, 01/01/75, Attack Warning Red (Article in monograph). Ske14261.

MMRG, 11/12/06, Royal Observer Corp UG post (Photograph). SKE14499.

MMRG, 11/12/06, Royal Observer Corp UG post (Photograph). Ske14499.

<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Article in monograph: D. Wood. 01/01/75. Attack Warning Red.
---Photograph: MMRG. 11/12/06. Royal Observer Corp UG post.
<1>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.