Monument record MDO25819 - Chesil Beach - Modern beach defences

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Two lengths of barbed wire/ scaffolding on Chesil Beach are visible as strips of parallel lines on aerial photographs {1}. These are the remains of World War Two beach defences. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project.

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Two lengths of barbed wire/ scaffolding on Chesil Beach are visible as strips of parallel lines, one 1.5km and the other 1km in length, on aerial photographs {1}. These are the remains of World War Two beach defences. The site was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping project.


<1> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3314-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12153.

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  • <1> Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 04-NOV-1946. RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3314-5.

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Grid reference Centred SY 5113 8767 (2205m by 1178m) (744 map features)
Map sheet SY58NW
Civil Parish Swyre; Dorset
Civil Parish Burton Bradstock; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Sep 6 2024 4:33PM

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