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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX51513 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Capel 'Y' station, Abbots Cliff |
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Summary
During the Second World War a 'Y' station was built at Abbot's Cliff, Capel. The station was designed to listen out for enemy radio transmissions. If a signal was heard it would take a bearing to help identify the location. The building consisted of a blast wall c. 3m high and inside was a tall wooden structure c. 8m high with the aerial on the top.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2684 3862 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NE |
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| Parish: | HOUGHAM WITHOUT, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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A 'Y' station at Capel is visible as a building on aerial photographs taken in 1946.(1-3). The station was designed to listen out for enemy radio transmissions. If a signal was heard it would take a bearing to help identify the location. The building consisted of a blast wall c. 3m high and inside was a tall wooden structure c. 8m high with the aerial on the top. It was demolished during the 1970s.(4)
<1> RAF, 1941, NMR RAF/26H/UK/1443 3324-3325 02-FEB-1941 (Photograph). SWX23841.
<2> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1093 4003-4004 03-JAN-1946 (Photograph). SWX23796.
<3> RAF, 1966, NMR RAF/V58/7170 0154-0155 06-JAN-1966 (Photograph). SWX23948.
<4> John Guy, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE15418.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Photograph: RAF. 1941. NMR RAF/26H/UK/1443 3324-3325 02-FEB-1941. |
| <2> | Photograph: RAF. 1946. NMR RAF/106G/UK/1093 4003-4004 03-JAN-1946. |
| <3> | Photograph: RAF. 1966. NMR RAF/V58/7170 0154-0155 06-JAN-1966. |
| <4> | Verbal communication: John Guy. Verbal Communication. |
