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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. This feature comprises a possible First World War redoubt located north of the Lodge Hill Ordnance Depot, and south east of Lodge Hill Wood and South west of Wybornes Wood. The redoubt was reused as Second World War defences as part of the Hoo Peninsula Stop Line.

Monument Types

• REDOUBT (Modern - 1914 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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A possible First World War redoubt located north of the Lodge Hill Ordnance Depot, and south east of Lodge Hill Wood and South west of Wybornes Wood. The redoubt was reused as Second World War defences as part of the Hoo Peninsula Stop Line. The Second World War elements at this position are recorded in HER record TQ 77 SE 1340. This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The report states: "Second World War defended locality with barbed wire enclosures, small weapons pits or gun emplacements, pillboxes and a possible First World War redoubt. A similar defended locality is 800m to the west. A 1940 German map shows a barbed wire entanglement about here. Mapped from aerial photographs taken in 1944 and 1947. First World War redoubt was seen as a very low earthwork on a May 2015 field visit. The field due east of Wybornes Wood was under plough at the time of the field visit and no earthworks could be observed. (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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