Building record TQ 54 SW 283 - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)

At Killick Bank, near Ensfield Bridge on N bank of River Medway.Hexagonal concrete pillbox, brick shuttered. 7 embrasures.

Description from record TQ 54 SW 49:
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 543445]. Standard type 24 pillbox situated on flood plain of River Medway, with field of fire E across Medway. Brick-skinned. Near a chalybeate spring by the north bank of the River Medway, at Killicks Bank, between the river and woods. (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 Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document).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 Victor Smith and Andrew Saunders, 2001, Kent's Defence Heritage (Unpublished document).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 Cluttons, 1994, Penshurst Place: Whole estate management plan (Unpublished document).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.