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:

Block and pile yards built as part of Richborough Port (MWX43487), a major WWI port serving allied troops on the Western Front [1]. Please see MWX43487 for details of the site as a whole. It is not clear what, if any, buildings or structures lay within these depots and they were decommissioned at the end of WWI. RAF vertical aerial photography from the 1940s shows the area of the depots as grassed over and largely devoid of buildings [2]. There are some features visible on these photographs which appear to relate to the WWI depots; including shallow earthworks of former tramways linking, via the East Kent Light Railway, to the train ferry dock (MKE 41999) and also a network of faint linear marks in the grass which are probably derived from buildings or structures associated with the depots. Only one of these features, the earthwork of a short length of former tramway lying between the A256 and the Stour, appears to survive and is visible on recent aerial photography of the site [3].

Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). SKE14160.

<1> Robert Butler, 01/01/99, Richborough Port (Bibliographic reference). Ske14160.

<3> Next Perspectives consortium via English Heritage, 2003, 2007, Next Perspective PGA georeferenced aerial photograph data, PGA_TR3260_2007-04-21.jpg (Graphic material). SWX15711.