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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 35 NW 669 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Stores, Richborough Port |
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Summary
A storage facility constructed during WWI. It was part of Richborough Port, a major port built to service allied troops on the Western Front. The facility appears to have been dismantled by WWII.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3329 5996 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR35NW |
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| Parish: | SANDWICH, DOVER, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 07/07/07
Amended description following Phase 1 of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey:
A storage facility constructed during WWI, it was part of Richborough Port (MWX43487), a major WWI port built to service allied troops on the Western Front.
The facility appears to have been dismantled by WWII as there are no structural remains of it visible on RAF vertical aerial photographs of this date [e.g. 2]. Please see MWX43487 for details of the port as a whole.
Robert Butler, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). SKE14152.
<1> Robert Butler, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). Ske14152.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Bibliographic reference: Robert Butler. Richborough Port. |
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Robert Butler. Richborough Port. |
Related records
| TR 35 NW 661 | Parent of: Haig Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 660 | Parent of: Kitchener Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 658 | Parent of: Shipyard No 1, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 190 | Part of: Block and Pile Yards, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 672 | Part of: Headquarters, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 187 | Part of: New Wharf, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 194 | Part of: RAF Salvage Yard, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 185 | Part of: Richborough Construction Camp (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 186 | Part of: Richborough Cowan Camp (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 414 | Part of: Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 671 | Part of: Richborough QMAAC (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 188 | Part of: Richborough Salvage Dump (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 189 | Part of: Richborough Stores Depot (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 191 | Part of: Robertson Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| MWX43551 | Part of: Sidings, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 90 | Part of: Site of Richborough Port station (uncertain location), Minster parish (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 670 | Part of: Stonar Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 196 | Part of: Stores Yard, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 197 | Part of: Train Ferry Dock, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| MWX43282 | Part of: Weatherlees Siding, Richborough Port (Monument) |
