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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43443 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Great Farthingloe Anti-Aircraft Battery camp, Dover |
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Summary
Great Farthingloe Anti-Aircraft Battery and other associated military defense features located west of Dover. Mapped from military aerial photographs.
| Grid Reference: | TR 30000 40081 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SW |
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| Parish: | DOVER, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BARBED WIRE OBSTRUCTION (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD)
- HEAVY ANTI AIRCRAFT BATTERY (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD)
- MILITARY SITE (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD)
- ROAD (Modern - 1940 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
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This heavy anti-aircraft battery is situated at Great Farthingloe was observed from aerial photographs from December 1941 [1] to August 1945 [2]. It consisted of a four gun-emplacement battery with central command post, a GL mat (gun laying radar) to the west, storage and magazine buildings, barracks, bunkers and air raid shelters to the north and an accommodation camp with storage facilities to the east connected by a road and track way.
Other smaller associated defence features within the military complex include: pillboxes, banked enclosures, bomb craters, slit trench's of various sizes, gun pits and Nissen huts .
Roads and trackways linking the components of the military site and the outlying landscape were first observed in December 1941 [1] over an area of 1km square from the Samphire Hoe cliffs to the south to the military site to the north. Although much of the road systems and trackways are still visible on Google earth [3] the barbed wire was moved and modified during the duration of the war and has since been removed completely by August 1968 [4].
See linked child records for more information regarding the components of the military site.
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<3> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 21-APR-2007 ACCESSED 15-JUN-2010. (Graphic material). SWX15704.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 21-APR-2007 ACCESSED 15-JUN-2010.. |
Related records
| TR 24 SE 90 | Parent of: Great Farthingloe Anti-Aircraft Battery, near Dover (Building) |
| MWX43453 | Parent of: Small WWII Nissen Hut, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43452 | Parent of: WWII Banked Enclosure, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43447 | Parent of: WWII bomb craters, west of Dover (Monument) |
| MWX43449 | Parent of: WWII Gun Pits, Great Farthingloe Anti-Aircraft Battery, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43451 | Parent of: WWII Military banked enclosures, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43454 | Parent of: WWII open roofed military structure, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43450 | Parent of: WWII open roofed military structures, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43446 | Parent of: WWII Slit Trench, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| MWX43448 | Parent of: WWII slit trenches, Great Farthingloe Anti-Aircraft Battery, west of Dover. (Monument) |
| TR 33 NW 49 | Part of: Square pillbox, Aycliffe (Building) |
| MWX43321 | Part of: WWII Pillbox, south-west of Aycliff (Monument) |
| MWX43322 | Part of: WWII Pillbox, south-west of Aycliff (Monument) |
| MWX51385 | Related to: Second World War probable air raid shelter (Monument) |
