Monument record TQ 77 SE 1509 - ?Second World War military installation, located alongside Chattenden Lane

TQ 7583 7231. A possible Second World War military installation, located alongside Chattenden Lane, is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs and has been mapped as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. The largest part of the site was located in the angle formed by the west side of Chattenden Lane and the north side of Rams Bottom Wood, which lay to the north of Chattenden Barracks (Monument 1545088). It comprised a group of small earthwork mounds, some of which appeared to be earth covered air raid shelters, enclosed by two linear banks. On the east side of the lane was a small hut and a short length of track, along with another possible air raid shelter, possibly partly enclosed by a fence. Most of the site was only visible on photographs taken in 1944, although the small hut on the east side of the lane was replaced by larger buildings in the 1950s, which were not mapped. The wood was removed when Chattenden Barracks were redeveloped in the 1960s. (1-2)

<1> 1944, NMR US/7GR/LOC348 2064 27-MAY-1944 (Photograph). SKE58993.

<2> RAF, 1950, NMR RAF/541/591 3029 29-JUN-1950 (Photograph). SKE56038.