Standard concrete construction infantry pillbox, brick faced. Door and embrasures blocked evidence of defensive earth works.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail
Condition : good
Date of visit : 05/11/06

Description from record TQ 77 SE 111:
Concrete type 24 pillbox in slightly entrenched copse. Narrow wall version with brick skin. Part of the defences for Lodge Hill Magazine Establishment. Door and loopholes blocked. (1)

This feature is mentioned in the English Heritage report on the Second World Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: "Second World War reinforced concrete Type 24 pillbox, constructed at the edge of a First World War redoubt (NRHE 1546157). The pillbox is a narrow wall version with a brick skin. The pillbox would have provided protection for the depot, and is also an element within the supporting defences of the stop line. Visible on 2013 Google Earth aerial photopgrahs, within the southern half of a First World War redoubt. The pillbox was seen during a site visit in May 2015, within the substantiial redoubt earthwork. The door and embrasures are blocked." (2)

MMRG, 11/04/06, Type 24 pillbox (Photograph). SKE14664.

MMRG, 11/04/06, Type 24 pillbox (Photograph). Ske14664.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). SKE14320.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). Ske14320.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, site visit by VTC Smith 29/9/95 (Miscellaneous Material). SKE6440.

<2> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project: Second World War Stop Line: Hoo St Werburgh to Higham Marshes. Research Report 9-2014. (Bibliographic reference). SKE31599.