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Monument details

HER Number:	TQ 77 SW 58
Type of record:	Building
Name:	World War II Pillbox, west of Town Road, Cliffe

Summary

A World War II concrete type 24 pillbox, narrow wall version with brick skin. Located in fields to the west of Town Road; faces west.

Grid Reference:	TQ 7345 7433
Map Sheet:	TQ77SW
Parish:	CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

PILLBOX (Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Protected Status:	Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: WWII pillbox, north-west of Mortimers Farm

Full description

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Concrete type 24 pillbox in middle of field to west of Town Rd, Cliffe. Faces west, a narrow wall version with brick skin. Situated on cultivated land.

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The report states: "Second World War reinforced concrete Type 24 pillbox, located at the edge of field to the west of Town Road, Cliffe, approximately 184m to the west of the anti-tank ditch. The pillbox faces west and is a narrow wall version with a brick skin. It is situated on cultivated land at the western edge of a field. Condition: The pillbox is visible as an extant structure on recent aerial imagery (Google Earth 2013)." (2)

1973, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11070.

1977, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX11072.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by VTC Smith 1995 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<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
---	Photograph (Print): 1973. Photograph. TQ7374/2. print.
---	Photograph (Print): 1977. Photograph. TQ7374/4. print.
<1>	Miscellaneous Material: Not applicable. SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry. Site visit by VTC Smith 1995.
<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)