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Kent

Historic places grouped by the county or council area around their map point, using official boundaries from December 2025. A large site may cross an area boundary.

88official records

6heritage categories

12access 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 (59 records), wwii (12 records), rail heritage (6 records). The numbers show what is in this collection, not everything that once existed in the area.

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Cold War

Swingate radar receiver site

Near Dover

Researched guide · September 2026

Kent

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Swingate radar receiver site

Folkestone Leas Lift

Harty Ferry Road Cold War battery

Pegwell Bay’s wartime beach defences

Little Cliffsend’s eastern wartime gun house

Meopham Windmill

Connaught Pumping Station

Herne Windmill

Chillenden Windmill

Willesborough Windmill

Ramsgate Water Works tower

Draper’s Windmill, Margate

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

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

Flint Walled Garden Tunnel At Ingress Abbey

Southborough Or Colesbrook Railway Viaduct

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

Engine Shed At Faversham Station

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

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

Railway Bridge No 618

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hollingbourne Second World War Zero Station

Boughton Quarry camp

Sandwich town walls: section from a point E of gasworks to site of New Gate (including The Bulwark and Mill Wall)

Lime Kiln 30 Metres North Of Putt Cottage

Colebrook Or Southborough Viaduct Colebrook Viaduct Southborough Viaduct

The Windmill Public House

Former Water Tower

Oare Windmill

The White Windmill

Borstal Hill Windmill

Watermill

Beacon Windmill

Gas Works, Offices With Railed Area, Depot And Adjoining Walls And Gate

Chartham Corn Mill

Engine House

St Margaret'S Bay Windmill

Rolvenden Windmill

Copton Windmill

Woodchurch Windmill

Eynsford Viaduct

Ripple Windmill

Windmill Terrace

Water Tower

The Windmill Public House

Water Tower At Margate Station

Querns Windmill

Remains Of Windmill In Grounds Of Seaview Hotel

Former Sawmill, Building Numbers 105, 106 and 107

Windmill Farm Oast

Four Winds Windmill

Medway Ports Authority Offices (Dockyard House)

Boundary Wall Extends From Main Gate Round South And East Sides Of Former Dockyard

Davison'S Windmill Stelling Minnis Stelling Minnis Or Davison'S Windmill

Water Tower Adjoining Tower Cottage

The Engine House, Cobham Hall

Loose Viaduct

Wall Extending Approximately 70 Metres Enclosing Garden To South Of Dockyard House

Former Royal Dockyard Church And Attached Wall And Railings

Watermill House

The Paper Mill

Charing Windmill

The Stocks Windmill