Building record TQ 54 SW 92 - Pillbox

A 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 . (1-2)

Additional Information (3).

Hexagonal concrete pillbox, brick shuttered. 7 embrasures. Grass on roof [remains of camouflage?]. Type 24 standard pillbox, situated on flood plain of River Medway, with field of fire E across river and valley. Brick-skinned. with PLAN drawn on form. [Recorder Farthing gives NGR - TQ 543445]. On a bend of the River Medway, between Well Place Farm and Ashour Farm, in middle of field. (4)

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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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

<2> Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document). SKE6956.

<3> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

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