Building record TQ 54 SW 54 - WW2 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. Set low in the ground. Standard type 24 pillbox, brick-skinned, situated on bank of River Medway, with field of fire across river to SE. with PLAN drawn on form. Between Well Place Farm and the N bank of the River Medway, on a very sharp bend of the river - in a large open field facing Ashour Woods on the other side of the river. (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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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 Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document).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 Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document).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.