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Monument details
| HER Number: | TQ 77 SE 1355 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Footings for an anti-aircraft battery located at Lodge Hill Anti-aircraft battery. Possibly pre-First World War or First or Second World War date. |
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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 two conjoined rectangular platforms or enclosures, footings for an anti-aircraft battery at Lodge Hill, Hoo Peninsula.
| Grid Reference: | TQ 7583 7412 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ77SE |
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| Parish: | COOLING, MEDWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
Full description
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There are separate monument records for the whole First World War anti-aircraft battery area at Lodge Hill at TQ 77 SE 139, and for the Second World War period features at TQ 77 SE 1354.
The report states:
Feature at TQ 7583 7412 – "Two conjoined rectangular platforms or enclosures, footings for an anti-aircraft battery adjacent to the west of the northern part of the First World War Lodge Hill Anti-aircraft Battery (NRHE 1442424). These earthworks could date from pre-First World War through to Second World War and so could be part of the defences of both Lodge Hill Ordnance Depot or the stop line. It may have also formed part of a local strong point around Lodge Hill House (English Heritage forthcoming, 9). A German map of 1940 bears a machine gun or anti-aircraft gun symbol at roughly this location, but this could refer to the First World War site. The earthworks appear as slight features on aerial photographs taken in 1944 but current condition is unknown. This area was surveyed in by English Heritage staff in March 2006 and is covered by the Scheduled area for Lodge Hill Anti-aircraft battery NHLE 1401714." (1)
Historic England, 2019, Lodge Hill, Cooling, Medway, First World War Anti-Aircraft Battery (Unpublished document). SKE52317.
<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 | | --- | Unpublished document: Historic England. 2019. Lodge Hill, Cooling, Medway, First World War Anti-Aircraft Battery. |
| <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 1354 | Part of: Second World War features relating to the Second World War Stop Line, defences of Lodge Hill Depot, at the First World War Anti-Aircraft battery site. (Monument) |
