Disused Road Between A20/B2011
- 27 August 2017 21:52333186Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knew the history of the old road that is between the A20 and B2011? It has a barrier across it at the B2011 end. I am wondering if it connected to the Old Folkestone Road, prior to the A20 being built and if so, was it ever used for vehicles?
It is in the centre of the following link:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Great+Farthingloe+Farm/@51.1115552,1.2662711,1211m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x47debb2f6a1be727:0xfebdc0390290f75c!2sClarendon+St,+Dover+CT17+9RE,+UK!3b1!8m2!3d51.1238948!4d1.3026061!3m4!1s0x0:0xe0f04bd4b21de5b9!8m2!3d51.1168841!4d1.2759241 - 27 August 2017 22:51333188When the Channel Tunnel was being built, there was quite large Portacabin site up there for admin staff. The lane linked to the old Folkestone Road that led into Aycliffe.
There was an old road/track up there before that see this link for different eras.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=15&lat=51.1162&lon=1.2713&layers=12&b=1 - PatrickS
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27 August 2017 23:08333190Adam, welcome to the Forum.
The following link from Lorraine - The Dover Historian - may give you the answer.
https://doverhistorian.com/2014/11/29/farthingloe-the-historic-valley-of-legends-and-outstanding-natural-beauty/
You will need to scroll to just over half way down the page to look at the map and a bit further down to where it starts "Prior to building the Channel Tunnel......"
Off the A20 the link road I believe you refer to is gated in two directions. Both were constructed during the building of the Channel Tunnel. The one to the west is a road specifically built for construction traffic and goes over the top of the chalk down (and can be walked). It goes under the A20 and links with the path that leads to Abbot's Cliff.
The one to the left went to the Channel Tunnel Workers Camp, now long demolished.
Hope this helps. - 28 August 2017 07:43333195I used to use this road back in the seventies, as a short cut from Aycliffe to Folkestone. I got stopped a couple of times when the army was using the ranges, but never had a problem. From the top of OFR, the road used to lead to a farm, which I think was a working farm, then looped back behind the buildings where it changed from tarmac to concrete. There is at least one photograpph of a part of the road in the archive section of this forum.
- 28 August 2017 09:53333197https://doveruk.s3.amazonaws.com/archive/960/180-the-path-from-shakespeare-cliff-towards-folkestone.jpg
I'm not very good at links, but if this works it shows the road. - 29 August 2017 13:07333228Thanks everyone for their replies, very helpful!
- 29 August 2017 19:07333236The curved road entirely serviced he Channel Tunnel works and the older road through the centre was old farm tracks but made more substantial in WW2 to service Hougham Gun Battery marked with the red *
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29 August 2017 20:42333239Below the red mark to the left at the roadside is the Old farm workshops buildings with the cottages next door which were owned by the ministry and rented to the Bensted family for a long time.The farm workshops were rented to Mr Casey who was a boilermaker and welder who was very well known especially to many in the Aycliffe estate who would call there to have cars welded for mot and just about anything that needed fixing.I spent alot of time at those workshops and often remember them as i drive up the a20 which now goes straight through where they used to be.
