Bluebell Hill Chatham Kent UK Bf109 loss

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Hi guys, hope you are well.

I have a mountain bike which I ride in my area of Kent UK, Chatham, Bluebell Hill area, on the cusp of Maidstone, about a mile from Rochester airport.

Was having a well earned drink and started chatting to an elderly but real nice gent' who owns a lorry park and a lot of land at BlueBell Hill.

We were chatting about how long he had been there and what one should do in/with life (!) and it turns out he had been there since he was born.

I asked him if he knew anything of stories of a Bf109 which crashed in the Bluebell Hill woods and he told me, yes, one did and the RAF retrieved most of it in when it went down, and that a preservation group of some sort had retrieved what was left of the plane in the '70's.

Can anyone spread some more information on this? Just be interesting to know, as I now in the area.

Many thanks for any help

Richard