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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 26 NW 1129 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Second World War Anti-tank gun emplacement south of the Thanet Way near Grays Farm, Chislet |
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Summary
By the end of October 1941 there was an Anti-tank gun emplacement south of the Thanet Way near Grays Farm, covering two nearby roadblocks at Bridges on the Thanet Way.
| Grid Reference: | TR 2347 6756 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR26NW |
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| Parish: | CHISLET, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Full description
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There was a Second World War Anti-tank gun emplacement south of the Thanet Way near Grays Farm. This was one of two such emplacements, operated at the end of October 1941 by 300 Battery of the 57th Anti-tank Regiment Royal Artillery, These covered two nearby roadblocks at Bridges on the Thanet Way - preventing ‘penetration along [the] Margate to Herne Bay road’.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : Unknown
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : unknown
Date of visit :
57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery, 01/01/41, War Diary 57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (Unpublished document). SKE15366.
57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery, 01/01/41, War Diary 57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (Unpublished document). Ske15366.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: 57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery. 01/01/41. War Diary 57 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery. |
