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Millennium Milepost on National Cycle Network Route 1

Millennium Milepost on National Cycle Network Route 1

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Millennium Milepost on National Cycle Network Route 1

Name: Millennium Milepost on National Cycle Network Route 1
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Location: Kent, South East England, England, United Kingdom

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Willem VS

January 6, 2024

The Millennium Mileposts are cast iron sculptures that help people navigate the National Cycle Network. You'll find four different designs of milestones in both rural and urban locations along cycle routes across the UK. These works of art were unveiled in the year 2000 and celebrate the freedom and diversity of the National Cycle Network. More than 1,000 Millennium Mileposts have been installed across the UK, some as far north as the Shetland Islands. You'll find them in scenic places along the network, such as coastal paths, nature reserves and train stations, as well as in villages, towns and cities through which the network passes. 🚴‍♂️🌿

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September 6, 2023

Fox Hill Down was chosen as the site and the prison built with a tunnel to the Eastern Docks so that convicts could reach the point of work without coming into contact with the public. The prison comprised of a main outer wall with a main entrance on the western side, with a gated archway. There were rooms on either side of the archway which were used for signalling and training stores pre1939 and one of the rooms then used as a guardroom during WW2. Parts of the footings of the wall can be traced along the southern side of the establishment. On the left, once in the compound was the Barrack Quartermasters Store which was probably the site of the prison stables, Further along the access road on the leftwas the range of blocks A and B. Between the blocks and C block Solitary Confinement Cells is level 2 and thought to be the exercise area. At the western end was the laundry, bakery and bathouse. In the far NW corner was the infirmary. A house was built outside the compound above the road for the Governor's accommodation. For whatever reason the use of convict labour did not materialise. The prison was closed in the mid 1890s. It was handed over to the War Dept and used as a military prison (sometimes called Broadleas Prison). It served the local South-East Military Forces. Additional buildings were constructed, the two stores or skidding sheds (one of which was used as a drill hall), the Chief Warder's accommodaation, and the Governor's House was enlarged with a stable block added. An iron railing fence was erected around these two and also enclosed gardens and a levelled area which might have been a tennis court or croquet lawn. The married quarters for the convict prison and also for the civilian married staff were sited in a coombe to the north of Fax Hill Down at TR33284242. By Feb 1908 it was again closed. For a short period it served as a Barracks in WWI. In 1925 most buildings had been demolished except for the outer wall, Infirmary and two storage sheds, which were used in the 1939-45 War to house the skidding equipment for 'gun bucking'. By 1950 the site had been cleared.

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Millennium Milepost on National Cycle Network Route 1

1. Reculver Towers and Roman Fort – Deal Seafront loop from Adisham

2. Waterloo Crescent Promenade loop from Folkestone Central

3. Deal Castle – Deal Pier loop from Folkestone West

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