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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX43968 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | WWII probable bomb crater, Upstreet |
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Summary
WWII probable bomb crater visible in 1946, located near Upstreet. The crater was no longer visible on Google Earth photography taken in 2003 or on MasterMap dating to 2009.
| Grid Reference: | TR 21694 62810 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26SW |
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| Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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WWII probable bomb crater visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 [1], located near Upstreet. As this site was not visible on the Ordnance Survey 1938 edition [2] it dates to WWII. The crater was an irregular circular shape of roughly 16m in diameter. It was no longer visible on Google Earth photography taken in 2003 [3] or on MasterMap dating to 2009 [4].
A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photographs exists within a GIS layer held by this HER.
<2> Ordnance Survey, 1928-1947, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947, 1938/1:2500 (Map). Ske12644.
<3> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 17-FEB-2011 (Graphic material). SWX15704.
<4> Ordnance Survey, 2009, OS MasterMap, 2009/MasterMap (Cartographic materials). SWX15710.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <2> | Map: Ordnance Survey. 1928-1947. Ordnance Survey 1:2500 4th edition 1928-1947. 1938/1:2500. |
| <3> | Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 31-DEC-2003 ACCESSED 17-FEB-2011. |
| <4> | Cartographic materials: Ordnance Survey. 2009. OS MasterMap. 2009/MasterMap. |
