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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 NW 133
Type of record:Monument
Name:Anti-Aircraft defences: Lower Hope, designated by wo s14 (1940)

Summary

Anti Aircraft defences at Lower Hope - an anti-aircraft battery in field in Redham Mead.


Grid Reference:TQ 7205 7784
Map Sheet:TQ77NW
Parish:CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

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Battery of 4 x 3 in. guns on temporary site. Concrete bases for guns said to remain below turf. Guardhouse survives (1), site photographs (2,3).. Nothing visible that is obvious as a temporary anti-aircraft site in 2005 (4)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe parish. The report states: "A number of structures survive from the Second World War, principally an anti-aircraft battery in field in Redham Mead- part of a network of defences either side of the Thames to defend the river approaches to London" (5,6,7)


<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.

<2> 1947, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9776.

<3> 1941, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX10109.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document). SWX12323.

<5> Historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

<6> English Heritage, 2013, Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project (Bibliographic reference). SKE31432.

<7> Historic England, 2012, National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula (Digital archive). SKE32442.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites.
<2>Photograph (Print): 1947. Photograph. 4112. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1941. Photograph. 2040. print.
<4>Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005. North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report.
<5>Bibliographic reference: Historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54.
<6>Bibliographic reference: English Heritage. 2013. Hoo Peninsula, Kent. Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project.
<7>Digital archive: Historic England. 2012. National Mapping Programme survey: Hoo Peninsula.