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Monument details
| HER Number: | 1535069 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | ST MARY'S BAY COASTAL BATTERY |
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Summary
An extensive stretch of Second World War anti-invasion beach scaffolding is visible on aerial photographs of 1942 as a structure extending from Littlestone-on-Sea to the northern end of Dymchurch. This feature has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East RCZAS NMP project.
| Grid Reference: | TR 0937 2781 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR02NE |
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| Parish: | DYMCHURCH, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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| NEW ROMNEY, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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| ST MARY IN THE MARSH, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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This stretch of Second World War beach scaffolding is centred at TR 0937 2781, and runs along the beach for approximately seven kilometres continuously from TR 0854 2454 (Littlestone-on-Sea) to TR 1157 3061 (Dymchurch).
It is contemporary with a range of other Second World War defences, such as an emergency coastal battery (Monument Number 1485888), pillboxes (Monument Numbers 1535202, 1427461, 1535487), and anti-tank cubes (Monument Number 1535062). This anti-invasion scaffolding continues along the coast to either side of this stretch. That scaffolding has been recorded as Monument Numbers 1533948 and 1533067 due to apparently deliberate breaks which make it non-continuous along the entirety of the coast.
By the time of vertical aerial photographs of 1946, the anti-invasion beach scaffolding appears to have been removed (1-2).
<1> Vertical aerial photograph reference number (Unspecified Type). SWX23904.
<2> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1439 3004-5 30-APR-1946 (Photograph). SWX23808.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | (No record type): Vertical aerial photograph reference number. |
| <2> | Photograph: RAF. 1946. NMR RAF/106G/UK/1439 3004-5 30-APR-1946. |
Related records
| 1535062 | Parent of: Second World War anti-tank cubes are visible on aerial photographs of 1942 (Monument) |
| MWX51439 | Parent of: Second World War beach scaffolding (Monument) |
| MWX51379 | Parent of: Second World War pillbox on the seafront at St Marys Bay (Monument) |
| MWX51344 | Part of: NEW ROMNEY EMERGENCY COASTAL BATTERY (Monument) |
| MWX51472 | Part of: Second World War anti-invasion beach scaffolding (Monument) |
| MWX51298 | Part of: Second World War Diver rocket projector battery, St Mary's Bay (Monument) |
