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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 34 SW 2090 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Water tanks at the South Front Barracks, Western Heights, Dover |
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Summary
Three water tanks date to the Napoleonic period and are shown on a map of 1810. They are almost 100,000 gallons and may have been originally cited here to serve installations lower down the slope – Archcliffe Fort, the Military Hospital and other smaller posts. (location accurate to the nearest 1m based on availabe information)
| Grid Reference: | TR 3117 4047 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- WATER TANK (Disused, Post Medieval to Modern - 1805 AD? to 1945 AD?)
Full description
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Summarised from report:
Three water tanks date to the Napoleonic period and are shown on a map of 1810 (1). They were originally approached from the north, along a branch of Citadel Road which had also been constructed during the Napoleonic phase of works at the fort to serve them. They are almost 100,000 gallons and may have been originally cited here to serve installations lower down the slope – Archcliffe Fort, the Military Hospital and other smaller posts. When the South Front Barracks were constructed these water tanks were likely adapted to serve them also. The tanks are located in the hillside to the north west of the Casemated Barracks. The site is now heavily overgrown and the tanks could not be seen. (2)
A plan dating to 1897 shows the location of these water tanks in relation to the newly constructed buildings of the South front Barracks. (3)
<1> E B Metcalf, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman, 1810, Kent: Dover. Map showing fortifications.
Kent: Dover. Map showing fortifications. (Map). SKE51587.
<2> RCHME, 2001, The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 9: South Front Barracks. Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex (Unpublished document). SKE17505.
<3> Colonel Kirkwood, 1898, Ordnance Survey town plan of Dover: map showing South Front barracks and a nearby hospital. (Plan). SKE51596.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Map: E B Metcalf, Royal Military Surveyor and Draughtsman. 1810. Kent: Dover. Map showing fortifications.
Kent: Dover. Map showing fortifications.. |
| <2>XY | Unpublished document: RCHME. 2001. The Western Heights, Dover, Kent. Report No 9: South Front Barracks. Later 19th and 20th-century barracks complex. [Mapped feature: #92747 Water tanks at the South Front Barracks, Western Heights, Dover, ] |
| <3> | Plan: Colonel Kirkwood. 1898. Ordnance Survey town plan of Dover: map showing South Front barracks and a nearby hospital.. |
Related records
| TR 34 SW 974 | Part of: Former site of South Front Barracks, Dover Western Heights (Monument) |
