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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 1091 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Area of probable First or Second World War practice trenches |
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Summary
The area west of Chattenden and Lodge Hill camps was used in both World Wars for practice and experimental military trench works. These are clearly visible on aerial photographs studied in 2009-2012 during the English Heritage Hoo Landscape project.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7486 7223 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | FRINDSBURY EXTRA, MEDWAY, KENT |
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| HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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The area west of Chattenden and Lodge Hill camps was used in both World Wars for practice and experimental military trench works. The trenches are of a wide range of types including staggered types, linears, redoubts etc. These were clearly visible on aerial photographs studied in 2009-2012 during the English Heritage Hoo Landscape project.(1,2,3)
Archaeology South-East, 2008, An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of Land at Hoo Road, Wainscott, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE16703.
<1> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.
<2> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Unpublished document: Archaeology South-East. 2008. An Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment of Land at Hoo Road, Wainscott, Kent. |
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project. |
| <2> | Digital archive: Historic England. 2012. National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula. |
