Monument record TR 23 NE 29 - Site of a World War I Royal Naval Air Service Base, New Dover Road, Capel-Le-Ferne

Summary

World War I Airship Station for the Royal Naval Air Service. A base for anti-submarine airships. The last hanger base was filled in some years ago and all that remains of the site now is a possible anti-tank block close to the road. Visible as cropmarks on Google Earth image 2nd May 2007. Summary from record 1413688: A First World War airship station is located at Capel-le-Ferne. The station opened in 1915 and was operational until 1919. The site is visible as a series of earthworks and structures on aerial photographs taken in 1946, though most of these have been levelled on aerial photographs taken in 1983. There is at least one earthwork still extant on aerial photographs taken in 2007, and the site is now a caravan park. The site comprises three, possibly four hangars connected by roads and a number of ancillary buildings suggested by further earthworks. This site has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey NMP (Component 2).

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Grid reference Centred TR 2586 3885 (98m by 205m) (3 map features)
Map sheet TR23NE
County KENT
District DOVER, KENT
Civil Parish CAPEL-LE-FERNE, DOVER, KENT

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Fleet Air Arm, 2016, Fleet Air Arm Officers Association. (Website). SKE31491.

<1> CBA Defence of Britain Project, 1994, Defence of Britain Site Report, Pers. Comm. David Burridge, KDRG/PSG/FSG (Bibliographic reference). SKE6447.

<1> Dobinson, C, 1996, Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, pp 300 (Monograph). SWX23706.

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 2002/6, Defence of Kent database (Digital archive). SWX23603.

<2> Southern Water Services, 1993, Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement (Unpublished document). SKE6815.

<3> THE MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF BRITAIN; SOUTHERN ENGLAND, KENT, HAMPSHIRE, SURREY AND SUSSEX, pp 251 (Unspecified Type). SWX23702.

<4> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1093 4001-4002 03-JAN-1946 (Photograph). SWX23795.

<5> Vertical aerial photograph reference number (Unspecified Type). SWX23765.

<6> Fleet Air Arm, 2016, Fleet Air Arm Officers Association., http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/fleet-air-arm-naval-air-stations (Website). SKE31491.

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  • --- Website: Fleet Air Arm. 2016. Fleet Air Arm Officers Association..
  • <1> Bibliographic reference: CBA Defence of Britain Project. 1994. Defence of Britain Site Report. Pers. Comm. David Burridge, KDRG/PSG/FSG.
  • <1> Digital archive: Council for British Archaeology. 2002/6. Defence of Kent database.
  • <1> Monograph: Dobinson, C. 1996. Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46. pp 300.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Southern Water Services. 1993. Dover & Folkestone Wastewater Treatment scheme Environmental Statement.
  • <3> (No record type): THE MILITARY AIRFIELDS OF BRITAIN; SOUTHERN ENGLAND, KENT, HAMPSHIRE, SURREY AND SUSSEX. pp 251.
  • <4> Photograph: RAF. 1946. NMR RAF/106G/UK/1093 4001-4002 03-JAN-1946.
  • <5> (No record type): Vertical aerial photograph reference number.
  • <6> Website: Fleet Air Arm. 2016. Fleet Air Arm Officers Association.. http://www.fleetairarmoa.org/fleet-air-arm-naval-air-stations.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Defence of Britain (EKE8520)
  • Non-Intrusive Event: South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Ref: 71330) (EWX10073)

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Record last edited

Apr 28 2017 12:09PM