MOD byelaws: Kent
This page brings together all available byelaws within Kent. Please select a link to view the byelaws.
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To be reviewed
The following sites are on the current programme to be reviewed. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below or byelaws do not currently exist and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD.
- City and County of Canterbury and County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1935
- Chatham and District in the County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1934
- Dover and District Military Lands Byelaws 1976
- Hythe Ranges Byelaws 1966
- Lydd Camp and Lydd Ranges Byelaws 1988
- Mereworth Woods Training Area ^
- RSS Swingate ^
- Shorncliffe and District Military Lands Byelaws 1976
Lapsed
Over the years the MOD has sold or transferred the freehold or relinquished the leasehold at a significant number of sites that were once the subject of byelaws. This list may also be helpful in showing for environmental and historical research those areas of the country once occupied by MOD. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD.
- Birchington Rifle Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1925
- Borstal Rifle Range Byelaws 1923
- Conyer Teynham Rifle Range Byelaws 1966
- Cornhill Rifle Range ^
- Fanhole Rifle Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1926
- Hawkenbury Classification Range Byelaws 1943
- Leysdown Air Machine Gun and Bombing Range ^
- Littlestone Aerial Range ^
- Lower Halstow Classification Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1942
- Lydden Spout Range Byelaws 1967
- Manston Aerodrome Byelaws 1937
- Milton Ranges Byelaws 1963
- Murston Rifle Range ^
- Sandwich (North) Rifle Range ^
- Sandwich (South) Rifle Range ^
- Scraps Gate Rifle Range Byelaws 1886
- Shakespeare Cliff Rifle Range ^
- Sheerness and Grain Defences Byelaws 1932 and Sheerness and Grain Defences Military Lands (Amendment) Byelaws 1952
- Westerham Rifle Range Byelaws 1942
- Yantlet Demolition Range Byelaws 1976
Revoked
Over the years the MOD has reviewed existing byelaws, in the process revoking previous byelaws. The MOD has also revoked byelaws on land that is in the process of being disposed of. This list may be helpful in showing for environmental and historical research those areas of the country once occupied by MOD. Unfortunately in some cases the department no longer holds copies of the relevant byelaws listed below and consequently in these cases no active hyperlink is in place. It is possible, however, that copies may still be held in local county record offices, but no physical check has been made by MOD.
- Birchington Rifle Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1914
- Blean Rifle Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1918
- Borstal Rifle Range Byelaws 1914 ^
- Canterbury Military Lands Byelaws 1923
- Canterbury Military Lands Byelaws 1915
- Chatham and District Military Lands Byelaws 1922
- Chatham and District Military Lands Byelaws 1915
- Dover Military Lands Byelaws 1935
- Dover Military Lands Byelaws 1928
- Dover District Military Lands at Shorncliffe and Hythe Byelaws 1922
- Dover Military Lands Byelaws 1914
- County of Kent Hythe Ranges Byelaws 1939
- Hythe Rifle Ranges Byelaws 1912
- Lydd Ranges in the County of Kent Byelaws 1939
- Lydd Musketry Practice Range Byelaws 1925 ^
- Lydd Ranges Byelaws 1887
- Lydd Tank Artillery Ranges Byelaws 1925 ^
- Dover (Lydden Spout) Ranges in the County of Kent Byelaws 1939
- Dover (Lydden Spout) Rifle Range Byelaws 1925 ^
- Manston Aerodrome Byelaws 1932 ^
- Sheerness and Grain Defences Byelaws 1910 ^
- Shorncliffe and District in the County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1938
- Shorncliffe and District in the County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1932
- Shorncliffe and District in the County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1930
- Shorncliffe and District in the County of Kent Military Lands Byelaws 1915
- Shorncliffe Camp Byelaws 1903 ^
- Yantlet (Grain Island) Artillery Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1939
- Yantlet (Grain Island) Artillery Range in the County of Kent Byelaws 1924 ^
^ No copy of the byelaw document is currently available.
Related Information
Ministry of Defence: byelaws review
List of Byelaws to be Reviewed
Updates to this page
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Added new information on Kent byelaws.
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Added Lapsed: Blean Rifle range.
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Added Scraps Gate Rifle Range Byelaws 1886.
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Amended 'Yantlet (Grain Island) Demolition Range' byelaw to lapsed.
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Updated summary
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First published.