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.