This was a firing range aligned west-east in a field to the east of Church Wood, Blean. A freestanding brick wall still stands, just inside Church Wood, offset from large earth mound and borrow pit (representing firing positions) further east. The range was apparently built by First-World-War prisoners-of-war. The range may have been refurbished late in the Second World War. On 18 October 1943 a group assembled to discuss ‘the improvement of Blean Rifle Range, Canterbury’. It can be very clearly seen on post-Second World War aerial photographs.
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Michael Walter, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE15241.

Michael Walter, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). Ske15241.

Canterbury Sub-District Headquarters, 01/01/43, War Diary Canterbury Sub-District 1943 (Unpublished document). SKE15242.

Canterbury Sub-District Headquarters, 01/01/43, War Diary Canterbury Sub-District 1943 (Unpublished document). Ske15242.