Monument record TQ 87 NE 1213 - Railway embankment, Yantlet Creek

The earthwork remains of a sinuous earthen embankment centred at TQ 8685 7656 which carried the railway line from the main line to the Yantlet Velocity Testing range on the Yantlet Creek. The line brought heavy artillery to the range to be tested and for part of its route followed the course of a former flood defence counter wall. The embankment can be traced for c.1100m following a roughly SW-NE course before entered the south-eastern corner of the range where the tracks turn north-west nto the range complex. There was also a short branch terminating in three firing points immediately to the south of the blind end of Pound Creek, south of Police Cottages. These firing points all faced NE (parallel to the line of fire of the main range) and are thought to have been used for testing smaller guns brought in by rail. These features were mapped from 1946 RAF aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (1)

<1> 1946, NMR RAF/106G/UK/1444 4015 01-MAY-1946 (Photograph). SKE58919.