Building record TQ 54 SW 55 - 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)

Hexagonal pillbox, with 7 embrasures: brick shuttered.Type 24 pillbox. 'Thick-walled'.

Type 24 pillbox, situated on the flood plain of the River Medway, with field of fire across the river valley and the river. [Recorder Farthing gives NGR - TQ 528429]. Beyond New Cottage, 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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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 Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document).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.

<4> Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document). SKE6947.

<5> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.