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| Name: | Rocket Test Facility, Blacknor Fort, Portland |
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| Type of Record: | Monument |
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| HER Number: | MWX444 |
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| Last edited: | Jun 9 2023 6:42AM |
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Summary
Rocket Test Facility, in use in late 1930s, on the site of late 19th-century coastal battery, for selected experimental firings of cordite rockets. Test firings stopped in 1938, although were resumed before the war, before being moved to Aberporth.
Sources and Further Reading
| <1> | SWX2180 - Unpublished document: Cocroft, Wayne D. 1997. RCHME Dangerous Energy Project: Field Investigator's Comments. 17-MAR-1997. |
| <2> | SWX8437 - Article in serial: Pooley, S J. 1994. The Development of the 3-inch British Military Rocket. Vol 47. p124. |
| <3> | SDO14739 - Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 1078752. |
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