Building record TQ 77 SE 1302 - Pillbox type 24

Concrete with brick facing, tilting at angle due to errosion by river.
Owner : Public
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey : Visable from Saxon Shore Way path.
Tourism Potential : Part of heritage trail?
Condition : moderate
Date of visit : 15/07/07

Type 24 shell-proof pillbox. [Recorder Alexander gives NGR - TQ 773713].

Pillbox. Concrete type 24 pillbox on foreshore facing S across River Medway and enfilading beach E and W. Narrow wall version with brick skin. Although in good condition itself, the pillbox has tilted about 10 degrees S, due to subsidence below concrete slab.On River Medway foreshore, E of Lower Upnor. (1)

This Second World War pillbox at the edge of Cockham Wood can be seen on aerial photographs taken in 1947. It is centred on TQ 7693 7125 and was mapped from air photos as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project.(2)

<1> 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). SKE14483.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.

<3> MMRG, 07/07/15, Type 24 pill box (Photograph). SKE14527.

<4> MMRG, 07/07/15, Type 24 pill box (Photograph). Ske14527.

<5> 11th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 18/01/41, War diary. (Collection). Ske14483.