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KT · Kent

HMS Pembroke – Royal Naval Barrack Tunnels

Royal Naval barracks, 1897–1984

The Chatham naval barracks that suffered a devastating WWI air raid, with tunnels beneath believed to have sheltered survivors.

10 Dec 2025

KT · Kent

Dover Docks – Royal Navy Fuel Bunkers

Naval fuel storage

Five vast fuel tanks cut into the cliffs above Dover Docks to keep the Navy's oil supply safe from air attack.

2 Dec 2025

ST · Staffordshire

RAF Fauld – Detonator Store

World War II, Munitions storage site

An underground WWII munitions depot near Hanbury, remembered for one of Britain's largest ever accidental explosions.

20 Nov 2025

KT · Kent

Mackeson Brewery Tunnels

Early 20th century - present

Brick-built cellars beneath Hythe that once served the brewery behind Mackeson Stout, still used for storage today.

5 Nov 2025

KT · Kent

Fan Bay Deep Shelter

World War II - Coastal deep shelter

A deep chalk-cut shelter built to protect the gun crews of the Fan Bay Battery, with wartime tunnels leading to First World War sound mirrors.

22 Oct 2025

KT · Kent

North Centre Detached Bastion

Napoleonic-era fortification

Two linked bastions built into Dover's Western Heights to guard against invasion from the north, now abandoned and overgrown.

8 Oct 2025

KT · Kent

Croucher's Tunnels

20th century, chalk-cut storage tunnels

The central section of a three-part chalk tunnel complex behind Snargate Street, Dover - still in occasional working use today.

27 Sept 2025

KT · Kent

Sittingbourne Air Raid Shelter

World War II, Public air raid shelter

Four separate wartime shelters lying beneath a quiet green space in Sittingbourne, each once holding around fifty people.

30 Aug 2025

KT · Kent

Soldiers' Home & Durham Hill Air Raid Tunnels

Wartime shelter extension, 1940s

The eastern arm of Dover's Snargate Street shelter network, badly damaged by a direct hit in 1944 and unsafe ever since.

30 Aug 2025

KT · Kent

Court's Wine Vaults / Barwick's Caves

Early 19th century, chalk-cut vaults

The western section of Dover's Snargate Street tunnel complex

11 Aug 2025

SX · Sussex

Beachy Head R1 Rotor Radar Station

Cold War radar bunker, built 1952

A secret underground R1 radar station on the cliffs above Eastbourne, built to watch for Soviet bombers and now almost entirely buried from view.

19 Jul 2025

SX · Sussex

Fairlight R2 Rotor Radar Station

Radar station, active 1940–1973

A wartime radar site near Hastings that was rebuilt underground during the Cold War, now buried within a nature reserve.

2 Jul 2025

SX · Sussex

Truleigh Hill R2 Rotor Radar Station

Radar station, active 1940–1958

A Chain Home Low site turned Cold War ROTOR bunker on the Sussex Downs, its guardhouse and operations block still standing today.

15 Jun 2025