Airships during the Great War opereted from Kent as part of the Dover patrol. Just up the road on the Godmersham Estate, outside Ashford, one of the beats on the shoot is called Airship. It is a narrow deep re-entrant, vaery shelterd. In the bottom is a ditch about 20 feet deep now by ten foot wide. The Airship gondola was lowered into the pit for servicng. there is a straaighgt run of about ten miles to the coast.
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