Building record TQ 54 SW 61 - 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. [Recorder Urquhart gives NGR - TQ 531418].Type 24 pillbox. 'Thick-walled'. Type 24 pillbox, brick-shuttered, situated on W side of River Medway (on river bank). Field of fire E to S across river and valley. with PLAN on form. At the rear of Nashes Farm, between the farm and the River Medway, in the corner of a field - area of 'Wildboars'. (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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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 Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document).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 Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document).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.