Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump
Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump is a bunker in Hawkinge, Shepway District, England. Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump is situated near the ruins Airfield Fire Station, as well as near Aircraft Hanger Base.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights: Kent Battle of Britain Museum and Folkestone Castle.
Kent Battle of Britain Museum
Museum
The Kent Battle of Britain Museum is an aviation museum located in Hawkinge, Kent, focused on the Allied and Axis men of the Battle of Britain. The Spirit of the Few Monument is in the grounds of the museum. Kent Battle of Britain Museum is situated 870 feet northeast of Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump.
Folkestone Castle
Archaeological site
Folkestone Castle stood on a spur of the North Downs to the north of the town of Folkestone, Kent. The Norman castle existed in the late 11th and 12th centuries and was built on a natural mound which. Folkestone Castle is situated 1 mile southeast of Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump.
St Luke’s
Church
St Luke’s is a church, which is situated 4,100 feet east of Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hawkinge and Paddlesworth.
Hawkinge
Village
Hawkinge is a town and civil parish in the Folkestone and Hythe district of Kent, England. The original village of Hawkinge is actually just less than a mile due east of the present village centre; the village of Hawkinge was formed by the merging of Hawkinge and Uphill.
Paddlesworth
Hamlet
Paddlesworth is a hamlet and parish located about 3 miles NNW of Folkestone in Kent, England, near Hawkinge. Paddlesworth was a sighting-point for the Anglo-French Survey linking the Royal Greenwich Observatory with the Paris Observatory, undertaken by General William Roy.
Arpinge
Hamlet
Arpinge is a hamlet between Paddlesworth and Newington to the west of Folkestone in Kent, England. It consists of three working farms, three now converted to residential use and a further four houses.
Hawkinge Airfield Fuel Dump
- Type: Bunker
- Categories: building and military installation
- Location: Hawkinge, Shepway District, Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.11112° or 51° 6′ 40″ north
Longitude
1.14957° or 1° 8′ 58″ east
Open location code
9F33446X+CR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=bunker
OpenStreetMap feature
military=bunker
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Airfield Fire Station and Aircraft Hanger Base.
Nearby Places
Places to explore: Lord Dowding Memorial Hangar and Link Trainer Building.
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