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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 SW 1089
Type of record:Monument
Name:Second World War Anti Aircraft Battery, Ripney Hill Farm

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
Map Sheet:TQ97SW
Parish:MINSTER-ON-SEA, SWALE, KENT

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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.