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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SW 1071 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Section of the Second World War Stop Line from Deangate Ridge to Higham Marshes, 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. This feature comprises a section of the Second World War Stop Line from Deangate Ridge to Higham Marshes, in the Hoo Peninsula.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7360 7455 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SW |
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| Parish: | CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- STOP LINE (Modern - 1940 AD to 1944 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Second World War artillery pillbox located to the east of the anti-tank ditch, near Rectory Road, Cliffe Parish. |
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Full description
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This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: "This section extended north from the lower slopes of Deangate Ridge towards Higham Marshes, near Cliffe for 1466m. Its east end was 680m to the west of Berry Court Wood, just south of Merryboys Road near the junction with Town Road (TQ 7404 7371). It ran north west for 634m to Mortimers Farm (TQ 7363 7411), then followed Town Road north for 823m as far as Rectory Road, just north of the railway line (TQ 7351 7473). It continued (NRHE 154118) to the north-west from Rectory Road for 545m and then cut down into the edge of a large quarry. The quarry formed a section of the anti-invasion obstruction.
Condition: Aerial photographs taken on 20th June 1942 record the stop line near Cliffe Woods with the anti-tank ditch in place. The whole section was photographed in 1944, when the ditch was backfilled with mounds of earth lying alongside the former ditch. The buried remains of the anti-tank ditch were visible as a crop mark on aerial photographs of 1946. Aerial photographs taken in 2011 and 2013 suggest that the anti-tank ditch survives as a sub-surface feature, revealed as a cropmark between Mortimer's farm and the disused quarry. It has probably been destroyed by housing on the edge of Cliffe Woods village to the east of the B2000 road. " (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) |
