Monument record TR 26 NW 1124 - Second World War Pillbox on the coast at Reculver, near the outflow of the Northmouth Sluice

By November 1940 there was a pillbox on the coast, east of the church ruins, at Reculver. This was one of the Coastal Crust defences, constructed from mid 1940. It was pillbox No.44 in the 1940 list of pillboxes in East Kent (2 December); it was in Sector 7 of the area, at the stated Military Grid reference R 672875. In early to mid 1941 the seaward walls of this pillbox will have been thickened to three feet and six inches, to better withstand shell-fire. The coastline here has been heavily strengthened, here since the Second World War and it is most unlikely that any trace survives.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : Yes
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Condition : Destroyed
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Site of Second World War pllbox [Sector 7]. On the coast near Reculver.(5)

<1> CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15109.

<2> 43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15108.

<3> CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15109.

<4> 43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15108.

<5> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.