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Monument details

Summary

Anti-vehicle concrete road block, consisting of two concrete blocks either side of lane

Monument Types

• ROADBLOCK (Modern - 1940 AD? to 1945 AD?)

Full description

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Concrete road block, consisting of two concrete blocks either side of lane, with slots to take steel girder (RSJ). Protected by type 24 pillbox (21/1)
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey : On public road
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail
Condition : very good
Date of visit : 06/10/29
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This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Hoo Peninsula Second World War Stop Line. The report states: "Part of a Second World War roadblock located either side of a track north from the Stoke Road, east of Hoo St Werburgh. The roadblock comprised two concrete blocks which once held a horizontal rail. The concrete blocks were noted by Foot in 2003 (Foot 2006). Visible on 2007 aerial photographs (PGA). Seen on a field visits in 2014, very overgrown but with signs of corrugated iron shuttering on the surface of the concrete. (2)

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, War diary (Collection). SKE14285.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, War diary (Collection). Ske14285.

MMRG, 10/06/06, Road block (Photograph). SKE14510.

MMRG, 10/06/06, Road block (Photograph). Ske14510.

<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.

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