Building record TQ 54 NW 47 - Pillbox

WW2 pillbox part of a nodal point ,or 'anti-tank' island, formed during 1940-41 at the junction between the Newhaven-Hoo stop-line and the GHQ Line 'B' stop-line along the left bank of the Medway.(1)

Additional Information (2-3)

Hexagonal pillbox. Brick-shuttered. [In very wet and swampy area making access impossible]. [Recorder Urquhart gives NGR - TQ 546455]. Standard type 24 pillbox, brick-shuttered, situated in wooded copse adjacent to Haysden to Leigh road. Field of fire SE along road and across River Medway to Ensfield Bridge. with PLAN drawn on form. At Ensfield Bridge, on E side of road from Leigh station, in swampy area. (4)

<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.

<2> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

<3> Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document). SKE6956.

<4> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.