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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 1267 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Anti-tank pillbox, northern edge of Berry Court Wood, Cliffe |
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Summary
Good condition type 28A pillbox. Forming part of Hoo stop line (GHQ line) anti invasion defences 1940. Facing north east.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7505 7395 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD?)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Two Anti-tank pillboxes, northern edge of Berry Court Wood, Cliffe |
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Full description
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Standard concrete construction anti-tank pillbox with 4 embrasures. Gun holdfast ring in place.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail?
Condition : very good
Date of visit : 12/03/06
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This feature is noted in the English Heritage report on the Hoo Peninsula Second World War Stop Line, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: "Second World War anti-tank gun emplacement or pillbox located near the foot of a north facing slope at the northern edge of Berry Court Wood. Recorded on 1944 aerial photographs and partially on 2013 Google Earth photographs. A 2014 field visit confirmed the pillbox is concrete with no brick shuttering, but evidence of wood shuttering was seen on the surface" (2).
11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 12/01/40, War diary. (Collection). SKE14270.
11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 12/01/40, War diary. (Collection). Ske14270.
MMRG, 12/06/06, Type 28 A pill box (Photograph). SKE14507.
MMRG, 12/06/06, Type 28 A pill box (Photograph). Ske14507.
<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 | | --- | Collection: 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment. 12/01/40. War diary.. |
| --- | Photograph: MMRG. 12/06/06. Type 28 A pill box. |
| <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) |
