Monument record TQ 77 SE 1495 - Tile Barn Farm Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery

General location of the site of a First World War heavy anti aircraft battery at Tile Barn Farm which was armed with one 3-inch 20-hundredweight gun in 1917. (1)

The general location reported for the anti aircraft battery falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. No features associated with an anti aircraft battery of that date were identified in the vicinity during that survey. (2)

<1> Dobinson, C, 1996, Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46 (Monograph). SWX23706.

<2> English Heritage, 2011, 22-NOV-2011/English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project (Verbal communication). SKE58755.