Concrete plinth
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential : Possible heritage trail
Condition : good
Date of visit : 11/10/06

Description from record TQ 77 SE 113:
Concrete type 24 pillbox on crestline facing N. Incomplete (base slab only). Intended to be part of the defences of Lodge Hill Magazine. Site visit by VTC Smith 29/9/1995

Included in English Heritage Report on the Second World War Stop Line in 2014: "Second World War reinforced concrete Type 24 pillbox, constructed on the north-west edge of Wybornes Wood, High Halstow, near the north-eastern corner of Lodge Hill Royal Naval Armaments Depot. It appeared as an extant structure on Google Earth aerial photographs taken in 2007, but is under tree cover on aerial photographs of 2013 so current condition is unknown". (2)

MMRG, 10/11/06, Type 24 pill box base (Photograph). SKE14686.

MMRG, 10/11/06, Type 24 pill box base (Photograph). Ske14686.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary (Collection). SKE14326.

11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary (Collection). Ske14326.

<1> Not applicable, SMR Kent uncatalogued index entry, Site visit by VTC Smith 1995 (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.