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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 1327 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Earthwork banking adjacent to part of the Second World War Stop Line from south-east of Ratcliffe Highway to Deansgate Sports Ground, Hoo Peninsula. |
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Summary
This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The feature comprises earthwork banking adjacent to part of the Second World War Stop Line from south-east of Ratcliffe Highway to Deansgate Sports Ground, Hoo Peninsula.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7818 7334 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | HIGH HALSTOW, MEDWAY, KENT |
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| HOO ST WERBURGH, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- DEFENCE WORK (Modern - 1940 AD to 2050 AD)
Full description
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Earthwork banking adjacent to part of the Second World War Stop Line from south-east of Ratcliffe Highway to Deansgate Sports Ground, Hoo Peninsula, which is part of the Stop Line which ran from Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. This information comes from the English Heritage report on the Stop Line which is part of its wider study into the Hoo Peninsula. The Stop Line was an integrated series of manmade and natural defences as an anti-invasion, anti-tank defence work. The works included pillboxes, earthworks, anti-tank ditch, anti-tank gun emplacements. These separate elements are recorded in separate monument records.
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.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | 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) |
