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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 56 NW 123 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Royal Observer Corps Nuclear Monitoring Post, Fort Farningham |
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Summary
1960's ROC Nuclear Monitoring Post
| Grid Reference: | TQ 5331 6689 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ56NW |
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| Parish: | FARNINGHAM, SEVENOAKS, KENT |
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Monument Types
| Protected Status: | Scheduled Monument 32265 |
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Full description
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Buried within the north eastern section of the infilled ditch of the L19thC Fort Farningham, is an underground bunker, constructed by the Royal Observer Corps in the 1960's. The Monitoring post formed part of the UK's Warning and Monitoring Organisation to record the location, height and power of nuclear explosions and their fallout. The surface monitoring devices have been removed, only the air ventilator and the access shaft are visible, but it is likely that the internal fitting designed for the crew of three remain.(Scheduling List)
Interior is clean but flooded to a depth of 4"(1)
English Heritage, 2001, Cold War Monuments: an assessment by the Monuments Protection Programme (Unpublished document). SKE17446.
<1> Kent Defence Research Group, 1999, Ravelin Special No.8 The Royal Observer Corps: Underground in Kent & Essex (Monograph). SKE7996.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: English Heritage. 2001. Cold War Monuments: an assessment by the Monuments Protection Programme. |
| <1> | Monograph: Kent Defence Research Group. 1999. Ravelin Special No.8 The Royal Observer Corps: Underground in Kent & Essex. |
Related records
| TQ 75 NE 389 | Part of: No 1 Group Royal Observer Corps (ROC) HQ, London Rd, Maidstone (Monument) |
