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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 66 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War II anti tank blockhouse, The Old Rectory, Cliffe |
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Summary
A rectangular brick and concrete anti tank pillbox/blockhouse at The Old Rectory, Cliffe. There is a gun port facing north.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7340 7491 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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Rectangular brick, concrete, gun port facing north. Very Overgrown possible traces of a second building at its side. (1)
This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The report states:"Second World War Type 28 reinforced concrete artillery pillbox with brick shuttering located within an orchard immediately to the south of Rectory Road. It was recorded to the west of the anti-tank ditch, partially concealed by trees, on aerial photographs taken in 1946 and 1947. Condition: The area is under tree cover on recent aerial imagery (eg PGA 2003, Google Earth 2013) but a field visit in may 2015 confirmed that it is still extant, although obscured by vegetation." (2)
Description from record TQ 77 SW 187:
In Orchard. (1)
<1> Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy, Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites (Index). SKE6445.
<2> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. Research Report 9-2014. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31599.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Index: Victor Smith and Ron Crowdy. Thames Gateway Assesment: Gazetteer of Defence Sites. |
| <2> | Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. Research Report 9-2014.. |
Related records
| TQ 77 SE 1322 | Part of: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes, Hoo Peninsula, Kent (Monument) |
