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Monument details

Summary

This feature is mentioned in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The feature comprises a flanking cleared area of part of the Second World War Stop Line from south-east of the Ratcliffe Highway to the Deansgate Sports Ground, Hoo Peninsula, part of the line from Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes.

Monument Types

• DEFENCE WORK (Modern - 1940 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Flanking cleared area of part of the Second World War Stop Line from south-east of the Ratcliffe Highway to the Deansgate Sports Ground, Hoo Peninsula, part of the line from Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes; recoreded in the English Heritage study which is in turn part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The Stop Line was a defensive line using natural and manmade obstacles connected by anti-tank ditches. The line was heavily defended including pillboxes, anti-tank gun emplacements and road blocks. This monument record records the part of the flanking cleared area around the Stop Line itself. Other monument records records other parts of the Stop Line features.


The report states: "This section ran from north east of Hoo St Werburgh, 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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