Building record TQ 77 SE 1255 - Type 24 pillbox, north-west corner of Wybornes Wood, High Halstow

Standard concrete construction infantry pillbox, Door and embrasures blocked.
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 110:
Concrete type 24 pillbox on crestline facing N. Narrow wall version with brick skin. Part of the defences off Lodge Hill magazine. (1)

This feature is recorded in the English Heritage report on the Second World War Stop Line in the Hoo Peninsula, part of the wider Hoo Peninsula study. The report states: "Second World War reinforced concrete Type 24 pillbox on crest line facing north. Not identified on photographs. The Defence of Britain Project notes it is in a hedgerow at the north-west corner of Wybornes Wood." (2)

Concrete type 24 pillbox on crest line facing N. Narrow wall version with brick skin. Part of the defences of Lodge Hill magazine. In hedgerow at NW corner of Wybornes Wood, High Halstow. (1)

The pillbox described in authority 1 falls within the area mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. No corresponding structure was identified on aerial photographs at the stated location. (2-3)

MMRG, 05/11/06, Type 24 pillbox (Photograph). SKE14666.

MMRG, 05/11/06, Type 24 pillbox (Photograph). Ske14666.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). SKE14322.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War Diary (Collection). Ske14322.

<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.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.