Monument record TQ 77 SW 55 - World War II Pillbox, View Road, Cliffe. Since removed.

Concrete type 24 pillbox in garden of a private house, eastside of Town Rd. Cliffe,facing N. Narrow wall version with brick skin. (1)

This feature was recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula. The report states: "Second World War Type 24 pillbox with brick shuttering. The pillbox is a narrow wall version, facing north. The pillbox overlooked the road from Frindsbury to Cliffe and was located to the south west of the stop line. Condition: The pillbox was faintly visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944 and could be seen on photographs taken in 2003, but had been removed by 2007. It was located in garden of private house 150m east of Town Road at side of a farm road, Cliffe" (2)

Concrete pillbox with brick shuttering.

Pillbox. Concrete type 24 pillbox facing N. Narrow wall version with brick skin. In garden of private house 150 metres E of Town Road at side of farm road, Cliffe. (1)

The hexagonal pillbox described in authority 1 has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. It was faintly visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944 and could be seen on photographs taken in 2003, but had been removed by 2007. The pillbox overooked the road from Frindsbury to Cliffe, and was part of the in depth defences of the Hoo Stop Line (Monument 1542577), a system of anti tank ditches, pillboxes and gun emplacements constructed in 1940 across the south western third of the Hoo Peninsula, from the Medway to the Thames. Several associated pillboxes have been recorded in the vicinity (Monuments 1418668, 1544096, 1418719, 1544029). (2-5)

Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by VTC Smith 1995 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> 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.