Second World War searchlight site in the corner of a field on the north side of the junction between Bull Lane and Gore Green Road, Higham. This was part of the ground based anti-aircraft defences. No trace remains. Nominal dates for establishment and disuse are 1940 and 1945.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey : Site not extant
Tourism Potential : None
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit : 24/02/06 (Defence of Kent Project)

A Second World War anti-aircraft searchlight battery at TQ 7191 7321in a strip of land extending north-east from the junction of Bull Lane and Gore Green Road. The installation comprised five buildings of varying size adjacent to Bull Lane with traces of a support road extending from these to the circular ring around searchlight, and NNW from this to two further locations of former structures already removed when the site was photographed in 1946. These appeared as sub-circular marks between 5-6m across. The entire site was mapped from 1946 RAF aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(1)

<1> RAF, 1946, NMR RAF CPE/UK/1789 4115 11-OCT-1946 (Photograph). SKE56000.