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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 87 NE 120
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of barracks for an anti aircraft battery, near White Hall Farm

Summary

Remains of Barracks for an Anti aircraft defensive battery near White Hall Farm. The concrete bases for these huts are no longer present. Site was identified from aerial photographs taken shortly after World War II.

Grid Reference:TQ 8845 7725
Map Sheet:TQ87NE
Parish:ISLE OF GRAIN, MEDWAY, KENT

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Concrete bases for barrack huts for now vanished heavy Anti Aircraft battery. White Hall Farm (1), site photographs (2-4).

Mentioned in Isle of Grain Historic Area Assessment conducted by English Heritage in 2014: "a battery at White Hall Farm (in operation in 1918 and in 1942-3)" (5).


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

<2> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9482.

<3> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9554.

<4> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9555.

<5> English Heritage, 2014, Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment (Monograph). SKE29397.

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): 1946. Photograph. 3016. print.
<3>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4016. print.
<4>Photograph (Print): 1946. Photograph. 4018. print.
<5>Monograph: English Heritage. 2014. Isle of Grain, Hoo Peninsula, Kent: Historic area assessment.