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Monument details

HER Number:TR 36 NW 149
Type of record:Monument
Name:Linear cropmark feature, Acol

Summary

A long irregular linear feature was identified during the transcription of features recorded on aerial photographs. These aerial photographs were taken by the Royal Commission on the Historic Monuments of England for a project to identify and classify cropmarks across Kent. The feature runs for some 700m and is part of the eartly 20th century militarty railway from Manston to Minnis Bay.


Grid Reference:TR 318 675
Map Sheet:TR36NW
Parish:ACOL, THANET, KENT

Monument Types

Full description

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Site identified during transcription of features recorded on air photographs. (1)

A section of the early 20th century militarty railway from Manston to Minnis Bay mapped by the RCHME Kent NMP project. Much of the full extent of the railway line has been mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. and recorded fully in MKE 124211.


<1> David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent (OS Card Reference). SKE39678.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>XYOS Card Reference: David McLeod/1986-7/RCHME Air Photo Unit Survey of Kent. [Mapped feature: #64552 cropmark, ]

Related records

MKE124211Part of: Railway from Minnis Bay to Manston Airfield (Monument)