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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 97 NW 1088
Type of record:Monument
Name:COASTAL BATTERY

Summary

Martello Battery - 4.7in guns, with concrete towers and an observation post with hipped roof.

Recorder Burridge gives NGR - TQ 909756].


Grid Reference:TQ 9136 7535
Map Sheet:TQ97NW
Parish:SHEERNESS, SWALE, KENT

Monument Types

  • COASTAL BATTERY (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Protected Status:Scheduled Monument 1471141: Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion

Full description

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Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey.Martello Battery - 4.7in guns, with concrete towers and an observation post with hipped roof.

Recorder Burridge gives NGR - TQ 909756].


Burridge, David, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE13149.

Burridge, David, Kent (Unpublished document). Ske13149.

Anderton, Michael J., World War Two Coastal Batteries (Bibliographic reference). SKE13158.

Anderton, Michael J., World War Two Coastal Batteries (Bibliographic reference). Ske13158.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
---Unpublished document: Burridge, David. Kent.
---Bibliographic reference: Anderton, Michael J.. World War Two Coastal Batteries.