Monument record TR 15 NE 842 - Second World War Road block at the bridge over the railway on the track out to Garrington Farm, Bekesbourne

Summary

There was a Second World War road-block on a small bridge in a farm-track lbetween Bekesbourne and Garrington Farms. It formed part of the defences of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line, which here followed the course of the Canterbury to Dover Railway. A triple line of concrete anti-tank pimples survives to the west of the roadblock, and there was an anti-tank ditchon the other side.

Location

Grid reference TR 1998 5568 (point)
Map sheet TR15NE
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish ICKHAM AND WELL, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full Description

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15178.

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15178.

John Herbert, Photograph by John Herbert (digital copy in project archive) (Photograph). SKE15176.

John Herbert, Photograph by John Herbert (digital copy in project archive) (Photograph). Ske15176.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15175.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15175.

Millyard D., 01/01/96, Bekesbourne and the Second World War (Bibliographic reference). SKE15177.

Millyard D., 01/01/96, Bekesbourne and the Second World War (Bibliographic reference). Ske15177.

Sources/Archives (8)

  • --- Unpublished document: 43 Division General Staff. 01/01/40. War Diary 43 Division General Staff.
  • --- Unpublished document: 43 Division General Staff. 01/01/40. War Diary 43 Division General Staff.
  • --- Photograph: John Herbert. Photograph by John Herbert (digital copy in project archive).
  • --- Photograph: John Herbert. Photograph by John Herbert (digital copy in project archive).
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Millyard D.. 01/01/96. Bekesbourne and the Second World War.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: Millyard D.. 01/01/96. Bekesbourne and the Second World War.
  • --- Digital archive: CBA Defence of Britain Project.
  • --- Digital archive: CBA Defence of Britain Project.

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Record last edited

May 10 2018 11:45AM