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Monument details

Summary

This feature is mentioned in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line. The feature comprises part of the Hoo Peninsula Stop Line running from South-east of Ratcliffe Highway to Deansgate Ridge Sports Ground.

Monument Types

• STOP LINE (Modern - 1940 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Part of the Hoo Peninsula Stop Line running from South-east of Ratcliffe Highway to Deansgate Ridge Sports Ground, as recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line from Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes (part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study). The Stop Line was a Second World War anti-invasion defence works comprising natural and manmade obstacles connected by sections of anti-tank ditch. This monument record shows the line of the anti-tank ditch. Other features are recorded in other monument records.

The report states: "This section ran from north east of Hoo St Weburgh, Kingshill Camp, and east of Lodge Hill Royal Naval Armament Depot (NRHE 1077634). Condition: The first aerial photographs of this section teaken in 1944 show the anti-tank ditich is already out of use and being backfilled with mounds of earth visible alongside the former ditch. Parts of the sub-surface remains of the anti-tank ditch are indicated by cropmarks on aerial photographs of 1944 and 2013 north and south of Ratcliffe Highway. Sub-surface remains of sections of the ditch were indicated by cropmarks in fields under pasture, seen on 2003 aerial photographs to the south of Deansgate Ridge Sports Ground".(1)

<1> 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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