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Monument details
HER Number: | TQ 77 NW 133 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Name: | Anti-Aircraft defences: Lower Hope, designated by wo s14 (1940) |
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Summary
Anti Aircraft defences at Lower Hope - an anti-aircraft battery in field in Redham Mead.
Grid Reference: | TQ 7205 7784 |
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Map Sheet: | TQ77NW |
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Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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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Archaeology, 2005, North Kent Coast Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Phase ll: Field Assessment Year Two Report (Unpublished document).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 | Unpublished document: Wessex Archaeology. 2005.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. |