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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43571 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | WWII barrage balloon site, South Foreland |
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Summary
WWII barrage balloon site visible in 1941 and 1946 and located in South Foreland. This site was comprised of a barrage balloon launching site, one structure and a series of banked and ditched earthworks. The site was still visible in 1949, but was no longer visible in 2007.
| Grid Reference: | TR 35587 43077 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR34SE |
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| Parish: | ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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WWII barrage balloon site visible on aerial photographs taken in 1941 and 1946 [1, 2] and located in South Foreland. This site was comprised of a barrage balloon launching site, one structure and a series of banked and ditched earthworks. The barrage balloon site was 60m in diameter and was located to the N of the associated structure and earthworks. A structure 4m x 4m was alongside three enclosing banks with deep interior ditches. A rectangular area of probable hard standing measuring 12m x 6m, which may represent a building foundation lay alongside a bank. A wide, irregularly shaped ditch, partially enclosed by a bank and with three linear banks running NE-SW from it also lay to the S. Two groups of earthworks formed of banks and ditches less than 2m wide were located to the S of the barrage balloon mooring. In total the site spanned 130m x 110m. The site was still visible on aerial photography taken in 1949 [3], but was no longer visible on Next Perspectives photography taken in 2007 [4].
The features lay NE of a small military site (MWX43570) and Fan Bay Battery (Mke41970). To the N lay Wanstone Battery (MKe17934) and the Martin Mill Military Railway (MKe17265). Bomb craters also lay between these sites (MWX43566).
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photographs exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<4> Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage, 2003, 2007, Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data, Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3543 28-APR-2007_Updates (Graphic material). SWX15711.
Sources and further reading
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| Source description | | <4> | Graphic material: Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage. 2003, 2007. Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data. Next Perspectives PGA Tile Ref: TR3543 28-APR-2007_Updates. |
