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Monument details

Summary

Good condition, West of Deangate, type 24 infantry pillbox. Forming part of Hoo stop line (GHQ line) anti invasion defences 1940. Facing north-east.

Monument Types

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

Full description

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Standard concrete construction infantry pillbox, brick faced. Open door and embrasures.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail
Condition : good
Date of visit : 11/10/06

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report notes that there are two pillboxes in this approximate area, one is located south of the railway and one to the north. The descriptions from the English Heritage report for both of these pillboxes are given below, although the one has not been mapped as its exact location is not ascertainable from the English Heritage report.

First pillbox
The report states: "Site of Second World War pillbox on Dux Court Road, east of the Lodge Hill military depot and south of a dismantled railway line. Nothing identified on aerial images during the Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project."

Second pillbox.
The report states: "Second World War hexagonal pillbox north of a disused military railway east of Lodge Hill Royal Naval Armaments Depot. Visible on aerial photographs taken between 1944 and 1969 but obscured by vegetation on later photos. Reported in 2006 to the Kent HER as in good condition. This may be the pillbox HRHE 1441601." (2.)

MMRG, 05/11/06, Type 24 Pillbox (Photograph). SKE14669.

MMRG, 05/11/06, Type 24 Pillbox (Photograph). Ske14669.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). SKE14325.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). Ske14325.

<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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