Monument record TR 34 SW 560 - Range Finding Station for Langdon Battery, St. Margaret's Cliffe

Summary

Range Finding Station for Langdon Battery. Unclear from description if part of or separate from the battery.

Location

Grid reference TR 3393 4236 (point) Estimated from sources
Map sheet TR34SW
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish ST MARGARET’S AT CLIFFE, DOVER, KENT

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Site of the range finding station located immediately south east of the Cliff Road on the cliff prominence called The Cobbler. The largest feature is the rectangular foundations of a building 5m by 23m of raised concrete platform. Entered by two steps at the south west end. At the north east end a further two steps leads to living quarters with a WC (2mx4m) with drain in one corner. A further 2m square structure lay immediately to the south east. Lying approximately 10m to the south east, towards the cliff edge are three circular concrete bases. Between these and the building foundations is a small hole, covered with vegetation. A wooden lintel covered with corregated tin is partially exposed. This may be the entrance to an underground bunker, which is opening up as the debris infill rots away (1)


<1> Nicola Bannister, 1999, Langdon Cliffs Survey (Unpublished document). SKE6595.

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Unpublished document: Nicola Bannister. 1999. Langdon Cliffs Survey.

Finds (0)

Protected Status/Designation

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Non-Intrusive Event: Langdon Cliffs Historic Landscape Survey (EKE4862)

Record last edited

Jan 27 2012 4:43PM