South Foreland

Lying between the busy Port of Dover and the remote and hazardous Goodwin Sands sandbank, its two lighthouses were important for navigation before their disuse.

The two are the landward ends of the fiercely cleft Strait of Dover land bridge and their chalk geological stratum dictates the route of the Channel Tunnel.

During the Second World War South Foreland carried a Chain Home radar station similar to the still-extant towers at Swingate, east of Dover.

This was a coastal artillery battery with four Mark X 9.2 inch guns and a network of bunkers and ammunition stores, northeast of the lighthouse on the road to St Margaret's.

On 12 February 1942, the light battleships Gneisenau, Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen attempted the Channel Dash from Brest, France to Germany.

The Foreland's K-band radar started to track the ships of the Brest Group coming up the Channel towards Cap Gris Nez.