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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 36 SW 191 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Robertson Camp, Richborough Port |
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Summary
A military camp built as part of Richborough Port, (MWX43487), a major WWI port serving allied troops on the Western Front. After WWI the camp was decommissioned and the majority of its buildings appear to have been removed by WWII.
| Grid Reference: | TR 3347 6093 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR36SW |
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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 military camp built as part of Richborough Port, (MWX43487), a major WWI port serving allied troops on the Western Front. As with the other camps at Richborough Port, this camp was probably also composed of wooden huts - see Related Monuments.
After WWI the camp was decommissioned and the majority of its buildings appear to have been removed; the site was mostly empty and grassed-over with only some buildings at the extreme northern end on RAF vertical aerial photographs of the site taken in the early 1940s [2]. These photographs show a network of faint linear marks in the grass which are probably derived from buildings associated with the camp [2]. The buildings at the northern end of the site have since been removed and are not visible on recent aerial photography of the site [3].
Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). SKE14159.
<1> Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). Ske14159.
<3> Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage, 2003, 2007, Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data, PGA_TR3361_2003-08-14.jpg (Graphic material). SWX15711.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Bibliographic reference: Robert Butler. 01/01/99. Richborough Port. |
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Robert Butler. 01/01/99. Richborough Port. |
| <3> | Graphic material: Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage. 2003, 2007. Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data. PGA_TR3361_2003-08-14.jpg. |
Related records
| TR 35 NW 661 | Parent of: Haig Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 672 | Parent of: Headquarters, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 660 | Parent of: Kitchener Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 671 | Parent of: Richborough QMAAC (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 658 | Parent of: Shipyard No 1, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 670 | Parent of: Stonar Camp, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 196 | Parent of: Stores Yard, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 35 NW 669 | Parent of: Stores, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 197 | Parent of: Train Ferry Dock, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 190 | Part of: Block and Pile Yards, 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 414 | Part of: Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 188 | Part of: Richborough Salvage Dump (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 189 | Part of: Richborough Stores Depot (Monument) |
| MWX43551 | Part of: Sidings, Richborough Port (Monument) |
| TR 36 SW 90 | Part of: Site of Richborough Port station (uncertain location), Minster parish (Monument) |
| MWX43282 | Part of: Weatherlees Siding, Richborough Port (Monument) |
