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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX51339 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War coastal battery, Dungeness |
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Summary
A Second World War coastal battery is visible on aerial photographs of 1941 and 1946 as a tall rectangular structure on the seafront to the west of Dungeness. It had been removed by the time of the vertical aerial photographs of 1973. This feature has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East RCZAS NMP project.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0803 1659 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR01NE |
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| Parish: | LYDD, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- COASTAL BATTERY (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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The Second World War coastal battery is centred at TR 0803 1659, and measures approximately three metres east to west and two metres north to south. The coastal battery structure is particularly clearly visible on oblique aerial photographs of 1941, which show it to be a tall rectangular structure, at least as tall as the anti-invasion beach scaffolding to its rear (Monument Number 1533475), with a large opening facing towards the sea. By the time of the vertical aerial photographs of 1973, the battery structure had been removed (1-3).
<1> RAF, 1941, NMR TR0816/3 RAF/GHQ/156 0644 27-MAY-1941 (Photograph). SWX23626.
<2> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1725 3091-2 10-SEPT-1946 (Photograph). SWX23819.
<3> Ordnance Survey, 1973, NMR OS/73183 600-1 16-MAY-1973 (Photograph). SWX23788.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Photograph: RAF. 1941. NMR TR0816/3 RAF/GHQ/156 0644 27-MAY-1941. |
| <2> | Photograph: RAF. 1946. NMR RAF/106G/UK/1725 3091-2 10-SEPT-1946. |
| <3> | Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1973. NMR OS/73183 600-1 16-MAY-1973. |
Related records
| 1533475 | Part of: DUNGENESS WEST EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY (Monument) |
