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Kent area

Dockyards, windmills, railways and defences in Kent and nearby areas.

The work behind the coast and countryside

Chatham’s Ropery and Smithery supplied ships with rope and ironwork. Kent’s windmills show other ways of putting machinery to work, while the Leas Lift remains a restoration story in our latest account. Mill tours are often seasonal, and some published calendars disagree. The guide explains what each place was for and where visiting information still needs checking.

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158official records

6heritage categories

17access notes checked

These places come from official heritage records. Some are open to visitors; others are private or have unconfirmed access. A record may describe a surviving building, part of a larger site or a place where little remains.

This collection includes industrial (117 records), wwii (18 records), other defences (9 records). The numbers show what is in this collection, not everything that once existed in the area.

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Check the visitor information before travelling. Map points are not entrances. Our regional collections include nearby places, and town labels are approximate.

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Cold War

Swingate radar receiver site

Near Dover

Researched guide · September 2026

Kent area

The work behind the coast and countryside

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Swingate radar receiver site

Folkestone Leas Lift

Harty Ferry Road Cold War battery

Lodge Hill anti-aircraft battery

Pegwell Bay’s wartime beach defences

Little Cliffsend’s eastern wartime gun house

Chatham No. 3 Covered Slip and Boat Store

Chatham Dockyard No.1 Smithery

Chatham Dockyard Ropery

Meopham Windmill

Connaught Pumping Station

Herne Windmill

Chillenden Windmill

Willesborough Windmill

Ramsgate Water Works tower

Draper’s Windmill, Margate

Folkestone Harbour viaduct and swing bridge

World War II underground operational base 500yds (457m) SW of Bentley Cottage

Beacon and pillbox on Beacon Hill

Railway Viaduct

World War II underground operational post, 1/3 mile (540m) SW of Chapel Farm

Bowl barrow and pillbox on Cherry Garden Hill

Brick Lined Tunnel At Ingress Abbey

Railway Bridge At Stocks Green

Anti-Tank Cubes On The Sea-Wall Of The River Medway At Tq7926371678

Flint Walled Garden Tunnel At Ingress Abbey

Southborough Or Colesbrook Railway Viaduct

Chatham Dockyard, Main Gate

Type 24 Wwii Pillbox On Seawall Of River Medway At Tq7918771656

The Grange (Including Attached Tunnels And Garden Arch) In The Grounds Of Ingress Abbey At Tq 592 750

Engine Shed At Faversham Station

Chatham Dockyard, bell mast W of Main Gate

Romano-British roadside settlement and World War II pillbox immediately east of Westhawk Farm

Type 28 Wwii Pillbox On Seawall Of River Medway At Tq7924471695

Tyler Hill Railway Tunnel, Including North And South Portals, Under Tyler Hill (Former Canterbury And Whitstable Railway)

Railway Bridge No 618

Chatham Dockyard, Police offices

World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS15), 250m east of Cobhambury Farm

War Memorials To World War I And World War Ii, And Surrounding Walls, Paving And Approach

Cliff Top Entrance, Comprising Platform, Terrace Walls, Tunnel And Stairs To The Former Rosherville Gardens

Engine Shed

Chatham Dockyard, engine or boiler house

World War II Bofors Anti-aircraft gun tower, Pickett-Hamilton fort and pillbox: part of the airfield defences of RAF West Malling fighter station

Chatham Dockyard, Ropery offices

World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS3) at Wetham Green, 460m north of Red Brick Cottage

Buried Reserve and Pillbox, former Swingate Chain Home Radar Station

Chatham Dockyard, Sail Loft

A World War II Chain Home Radar station at Dunkirk, 200m north east of Christ Church

Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion

Chatham Dockyard, Officers' Terrace and gardens to east

World War II Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite (TS2), 300m east of Chetney Cottages

Chatham Dockyard, stables adjacent to terrace

World War II Air Raid Wardens' Post at Dover Priory Station

Chatham Dockyard, Medway House

Chatham Dockyard, Assistant Queen's Harbour Master's office

Second World War QF P-series oil bombing decoy

Chatham Dockyard, Queen's Stairs

Chatham Dockyard, Naval Store Department

Pair of Second World War concrete roadblock plinths east of Hoo St Werburgh

Chatham Dockyard, Chain Cable shed

Type 24 Second World War pillbox east of Hoo St Werburgh

Type 28 Second World War pillbox in the garden of Abbots Court Lodge, Hoo St Werburgh

Chatham Dockyard, No 61 Boat Store, Nos 4 and 5 Slips

Type 24 Second World War pillbox south of Abbots Court Lodge, Hoo St Werburgh

Chatham Dockyard, covered slip to N of No 5 Slip

Type 24 Second World War pillbox south of Abbots Court Cottages, Hoo St Werburgh

Chatham Dockyard, the Mast Pond

Hollingbourne Second World War Zero Station

Chatham Dockyard, the Expense Account Department, Wages Division

Chatham Dockyard, the Lower Boat Store

Chatham Dockyard, the Iron Store

Chatham Dockyard, the Wheelwrights' Shop

Chatham Dockyard, former working Mast House and Mould Loft

Chatham Dockyard, the Joiners' Stores

Chatham Dockyard, MCD Joiners' Shop

Chatham Dockyard, the Cashiers' Office

Chatham Dockyard, Officers' Reading Room and Admirals' Conference Room