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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 16 SW 95 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War roadblock at a bridge where Tyler Hill Road crossed the Canterbury to Whitstable Railway, Blean |
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Summary
From 1941, in the event of an invasion, the road bridge carrying Tyler Hill Road over the Canterbury to Whitstable Railway was intended to be demolished to provide an obstacle to enemy vehicles.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1369 6103 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR16SW |
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| Parish: | ST COSMUS AND ST DAMIAN IN THE BLEAN, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- ROADBLOCK (Modern - 1941 AD to 1945 AD?)
Full description
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In the event of an invasion, the road bridge carrying Tyler Hill Road over the Canterbury to Whitstable Railway was intended to be demolished to provide an obstacle to enemy vehicles. Such detonations were planned on bridges up and down this railway between Canterbury and Whitstable, suggesting it was intended as a kind of stop-line. The bridge may have been mined ready for detonation, it featured in the GreatBinge practice exercise of late 1941, but the troops failed to complete the ‘detonation’.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :
Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division, 01/01/41, War Diary Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15248.
Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division, 01/01/41, War Diary Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division 1941 (Unpublished document). Ske15248.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division. 01/01/41. War Diary Corps Royal Engineers 43 Division 1941. |
