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Monument details

Summary

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The feature comprises the line of the anti-tank ditch, part of Hoo Peninsula Second World War Stop Line, north of Lodge Hill Depot, between Lodge Hill Wood and Wybornes Wood.

Monument Types

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

Full description

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This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Hoo Peninsula Second World War Stop Line, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: Here the stop line followed a sharply angled course on the north facing slope of Deangate Ridge between Wybornes Wood and Lodge Hill Wood (TQ 7676 7455 to TQ 7646 7443) , for a total distance of 396m. There were small gun emplacements and weapons pits near the edge of the cleared strip around the anti-tank ditch. Wybornes Wood and Lodge Hill Wood were used as part of the defensive line and pollboxes were placed along the northern edge of both words, looking north over the marshes. Condition: the earliest aerial photographs taken in 1944 show the ditch is backfilled with mounds of earth visible alongside. It is visible as a vegetation mark on aerial photographs of 2003. A 2015 field visit confirms the ditch survives as a very low earthwork adjacent to Lodge Hill Wood and where it turns at a sharp right angle. (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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