Ashenbank Wood air-raid shelter
location: Ashenbank woods
Date: 17-03- 2020
Current state: You can visit on walks
Now the history :
https://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MKE41918
https://webapps.kent.gov.uk/KCC.ExploringKentsPast.Web.Sites.Public/SingleResult.aspx?uid=MKE41918
Second World War dispersed accommodation campsite 5 in Ashenbank Wood, Cobham. One of 5 camps, it was established in late 1940/41 for the RAF airfield to the north at Thong Lane. Its situation removed personnel from the greater risk of air bombardment if quartered at the airfield itself. After brief use by the Royal Navy in 1945, the site was used as accommodation for the homeless. After 1954, the huts were removed and the site returned to nature. Traces of the spaces occupied by huts may be seen, as well as tarmac roads and three surviving air raid shelters.
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Camp 4&5
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