Structure in Field

31 Oct 2015 14:35 #1 by Gone
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While browsing Google Earth I noticed some structures in a field between Dungate and Lynsted in Kent - NGR TQ926594. They may be of no significance but just look out of place somehow. Is anything know in the area?
A post war an AA site was built in the adjacent field but does not seem to have any connection.

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01 Nov 2015 10:35 #2 by PETERTHEEATER
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Not my line but the layout appears to be of a transmitter with aerial masts although there are no shadows of these.

Had a quick Google and found this:

www.bletchleyparkresearch.co.uk/research...kingsdown-y-station/

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01 Nov 2015 11:16 #3 by mbriscoe
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Kent HER have the 1946 images online, so can see the wartime radio station.

The BBC had their frequency checking site at Kingsdown but sure it will have closed now.

Correction, Tatsfield was the main frequency checking site, getting confused with Kingswood Warren which was Research Department.

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01 Nov 2015 13:40 #4 by carnaby
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These Kingsdowns are a pain in the ****.

The 'Y' service used two Kingsdowns - one near Deal and the other at West Kingsdown, but post #1 refers to yet another Kingsdown near Sittingbourne which is more than 20 miles distant from the first two.

Plan A is always more effective when the problem you are working on understands that Plan B will involve the use of dynamite :twisted:

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01 Nov 2015 19:22 #5 by Peter Kirk
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Lucky it was based at one of the Bottoms :)

No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)

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04 Nov 2015 19:27 #6 by Gone
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Thanks for the replies, a friend has suggested it could be a direction finding station and on searching it came across this www.flashearth.com/?lat=52.391857&lon=-0...&z=17.8&r=0&src="ggl" which is said to be a D/F station at Warboys.

I can see similarities in the structures at the two sites but would appreciate your opinions as i know nothing about the subject.

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04 Nov 2015 20:18 #7 by carnaby
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... a D/F station at Warboys.


That site at Warboys is still a bit of a mystery and has been described on other websites as:
Direction Finding Station
No.3 Group Transmitting Station (WWII)
Cold war Transmitter Station
W/T Station for RAF Wyton. LINK

I think it was probably all of the last three, probably not a D/F station (It's too 'heavy duty'). I suspect it has almost nothing in common with our 'unknown structure'.

Plan A is always more effective when the problem you are working on understands that Plan B will involve the use of dynamite :twisted:

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05 Nov 2015 10:08 #8 by Gone
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That site at Warboys is still a bit of a mystery and has been described on other websites as:
Direction Finding Station
No.3 Group Transmitting Station (WWII)
Cold war Transmitter Station
W/T Station for RAF Wyton. LINK

I think it was probably all of the last three, probably not a D/F station (It's too 'heavy duty'). I suspect it has almost nothing in common with our 'unknown structure'.


Thanks. In view of your comments I enlarged vies of both and I can now see that there is no similarity. Enlarged the main structure looks even odder:

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05 Nov 2015 12:04 #9 by PETERTHEEATER
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But, you agree it appears to be a hut (Nissen) surrounded by a brick or concrete blast wall with two pedestrian entrances through the wall north and south? Could also be earth traversed. The external 'cube' could be a generator room.

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05 Nov 2015 13:51 #10 by mbriscoe
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But, you agree it appears to be a hut (Nissen) surrounded by a brick or concrete blast wall with two pedestrian entrances through the wall north and south? Could also be earth traversed. The external 'cube' could be a generator room.


Slightly clearer on the HER.

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Is that a VHF DF to the NE?

Another one perhaps?

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And what about these?

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