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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 97 SW 1089 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Second World War Anti Aircraft Battery, Ripney Hill Farm |
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Summary
WWII Anti Aircraft Battery.
Summary from record TQ 97 SW 69:
Anti-aircraft defences: designated si by the war office (1940+)
Grid Reference: | TQ 94263 73441 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ97SW |
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Parish: | MINSTER-ON-SEA, SWALE, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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WWII Anti Aircraft Battery. Photographs (1,2).
(Note: Wessex Polygon Boundary does not cover the whole site and needs amending)
Description from record TQ 97 SW 69:
Ripney Hill Farm. Battery of a 4x3.7-in. AA guns, originally mobile, later with improvised diamond-shaped holdfasts for fixed guns, thought to date from 1943/4 as part of Operation Diver intiiative. Holdfasts only remain. (1)
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<1> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9794.
<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9499.
Sources and further reading
Cross-ref.
| Source description | <1> | Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites. |
<1> | Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 3006. print. |
<2> | Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 3062. print. |