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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 1092 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Area of probable First 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. A series of trenches west of the Four Elms roundabout date from the first World War based on 1923 photographs as studied in 2009-2012 during the English Heritage Hoo Landscape project.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7491 7141 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | FRINDSBURY EXTRA, MEDWAY, KENT |
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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. A series of trenches west of the Four Elms roundabout date from the first World War based on 1923 photographs as studied in 2009-2012 during the English Heritage Hoo Landscape project.1,2)
<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 | | <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. |
