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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 77 NW 1244
Type of record:Monument
Name:Approximate site of two surface air raid shelters to serve the Coastguard cottages, Redham Mead, Cliffe

Summary

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment of Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. This feature comprises the approximate site of two surface air raid shelters that served the Coastguard cottages, one brick, one Anderson type, likely destroyed when the cottages were demolished at the end of the 20th century.


Grid Reference:TQ 713 776
Map Sheet:TQ77NW
Parish:CLIFFE AND CLIFFE WOODS, MEDWAY, KENT

Monument Types

Protected Status:Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Site of Cliffe Creek Coastguard station and cottages, Cliffe

Full description

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This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for Cliffe. The report states: "Two former surface air raid shelters, one of Anderson type, the other a small brick one that served the occupants of the former coastguard cottages at the western end of Redham Mead have disappeared possibly when the cottages themselves were demolished in the late 20th century." (1)


<1> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31591.

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<1>Bibliographic reference: historic england. 2014. Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods Parish. Research Report 2014-54.