Monument record MDO30155 - Second World War military tank training area, Stokeford Heath, East Stoke

Tank trackways, slit trenches and foxholes associated with Second World War training activities are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of South Heath taken between 1946-47. A majority of these features have since been destroyed by modern quarrying activity in this area.

Tank trackways, slit trenches and foxholes associated with Second World War training activities are visible as earthworks on aerial photographs of Stokeford Heath taken between 1946-47 (1-3). These features were digitally plotted during the Wild Purbeck Mapping Project. They are not visible on the most recent comprehensive aerial images available to the project, having since been destroyed by modern quarrying activity in this area.

<1> Royal Air Force, 20-FEB-1946, RAF 106G/UK/1179 3063 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13186.

<2> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 3060-63 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13192.

<3> Royal Air Force, 17-APR-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/2018 4056-57 (Aerial Photograph). SDO13193.

Record last edited

Feb 5 2014 11:27AM