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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 NW 1320 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War Military installation ? Chain Home Low station- west of Woodchurch |
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Summary
Second World War Military installation - Pair of masts, huts, gun emplacement and paths visible on aerial photographs US/7PH/GP/LOC286 V 5010 19-APR-1944 and US/7PH/GB/LOC286V 2012 19-APR-1944
| Grid Reference: | TR 3238 6744 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36NW |
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| Parish: | ACOL, THANET, KENT |
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| MANSTON, THANET, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENT (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- CHAIN HOME LOW STATION (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- GUN EMPLACEMENT (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- HUT (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
- RADAR MAST? (Modern - 1939 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Full description
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Pair masts and hut group present 1946-61 concrete platform only by 1990.(1)
The site of a Second World War Military installation exending across a large open field west of Woodchurch. The site comprised a pair of masts, huts, gun emplacement linked by a long metalled path. This site may be the remains of a Chain Home Low radar station. These featuers were visible on aerial photographs US/7PH/GP/LOC286 V 5010 19-APR-1944 and US/7PH/GB/LOC286V 2012 19-APR-1944 and have since been removed following the war. The mast site can be seen as a parch mark in crops at TR 3249 6784. There were originally two buildings adjacent to these masts. The path follows the route of the track between the fields heading SW linking the masts to other buildings or structures and gun emplacements. Over 800m away, at the southern end, the path terminated at a V-shaped barbed wire obstruction wiin which were two small gun emplacements.This site was mapped as part of the Historic England Thanet Landscape Mapping Project 2024. (2-4)
<2> Historic England Archive, 1944, Historic England Archive USAF vertical aerial photographs, US/7PH/GP/LOC286 V 5010 19-APR-1944 (Archive). SKE57114.
<3> Historic England Archive, 1944, Historic England Archive USAF vertical aerial photographs, US/7PH/GB/LOC286V 2012 19-APR-194 (Archive). SKE57114.
<4> Next Perspectives, 2003-2021, Next Perspectives APGB orthophotography, Next Perspectives APGB Imagery 07-APR-2021 (Archive). SKE57110.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <2> | Archive: Historic England Archive. 1944. Historic England Archive USAF vertical aerial photographs. US/7PH/GP/LOC286 V 5010 19-APR-1944. |
| <3> | Archive: Historic England Archive. 1944. Historic England Archive USAF vertical aerial photographs. US/7PH/GB/LOC286V 2012 19-APR-194. |
| <4> | Archive: Next Perspectives. 2003-2021. Next Perspectives APGB orthophotography. Next Perspectives APGB Imagery 07-APR-2021. |
