Guess the Place

[MartinR]

FYI: The floor is the invert, the same in this case but not always.  When you dig a tunnel the ground pushes up as well as down so you need to use a tube or else construct an inverted arch to pass the forces out to the walls.  For road or rail you then insert a floor or trackbed above the invert.  Obviously a storage tank (like a canal tunnel) doesn't need a floor per se.

I don't think that this GTP needs location information!

[grandarog]

Thanks Beachbum,It was the floor that gave it away.I remember a bit on TV when a reporter went inside a tank .I wasn't sure where it was.
Next GTP later this evening.

[Beachbum]

You have it grandarog.
Various Oil Tanks were installed inside the Cliffs in 1940 by the Eastern Docks. These were the largest (5) at 33ft wide and 35ft high.

Over to you..............

[grandarog]

Looks like an underground Fuel Tank .  Maybe   Dover .

[John Walker]

Is part of this now a visitor attraction?

[Beachbum]

Thanks for the Co-ordinates MartinR.

Not water related............

[MartinR]

@Beachbum, with an invert like that and no flat roadway/walking surface/trackbed that looks like a water tunnel.  I'd say canal, but the T&S has the railway in it, and there were no other major canals in Kent!   I'm thinking therefore flood relief or similar?

[MartinR]

St. Michael and All Angels Church, Offham.

Location:

• Nat'l Grid:                  TQ 66023 58067
• Nearest Post Code:   ME19 5NZ
• Co-ords (WGS84):     51°17'51"N,000°22'48E or 51.297520.37998

The church itself looks rather interesting.  A Saxon private chapel, rebuilt c. 1080 and hence missing from Domesday, but is mentioned in the Textus Roffensis.  Of the original Norman build, only the lower part of the tower is extant, but the 13thC work was interlaced with Norman work, and indeed scars can still be seen.  It's now on my list of places to visit!  Church website, with an excellent 3D tour: http://www.stmaryswestmalling.org.uk/?page_id=181

[Beachbum]

Thanks John Walker, that sounds like a sport worth watching. Perhaps they should bring it back with some Benny Hill Music playing?

Okay, the next one for you............

[John Walker]

St. Michael and All Angels Church?

You have it Beachbum - over to you.


St. Michael and All Angels Church, Offham.

My clue about an unusual item on the village green ......
The village is famed for its medieval quintain which stands on the green, believed to be the last remaining example in the country.
The quintain consists of a wooden post around eight feet in height with a freely rotating arm on the top. One end of the arm is flat (the "eye"), with the other used to attach heavy objects such as a leather pack. In a sport dating back to perhaps Roman times, a horseman would ride at the quintain at full pace with his lance extended to strike the flat end. Should the horseman not be riding sufficiently quickly, the arm would swing around and the heavy object knock him off his horse.

[Lutonman]

I Think you have it Beachbum at Ofham,

[Beachbum]

St. Michael and All Angels Church?

[John Walker]

Snodland?

Not Snodland Lutonman - head South West.

[Lutonman]

Snodland?

[John Walker]

The church is not right in the village.


Something unusual on the village green