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Monument details

HER Number:MWX43258
Type of record:Monument
Name:WWII open structure on eastern bank of River Stour

Summary

WWII open structure on eastern bank of River Stour, mapped from military aerial photographs.


Grid Reference:TR 33150 62083
Map Sheet:TR36SW
Parish:MINSTER, THANET, KENT

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Open walled WWII structure on the eastern bank of the River Stour, square in plan and measuring around 8.5m squared with c.1.5m thick walls. This feature may be the footings for a pillbox that was never finished.

The feature is first visible in April 1944 [1] and has been mapped from a military aerial photograph taken in January 1946 [2]. This area has been redeveloped over by March 2003 [3].


<3> Google Earth, EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 5-MAR-2003 ACCESSED 4-MAY-2010 (Graphic material). SWX15704.

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<3>Graphic material: Google Earth. EARTH.GOOGLE.COM 5-MAR-2003 ACCESSED 4-MAY-2010.