Monument record TR 25 SW 190 - Second World War Pillbox on the Bramling Road, Bekesbourne

There was a Second World War Pillbox on the Bramling Road. This was one of three pillboxes in Bekesbourne, which, falling well to the south of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line, may, at least in part, have been intended as defences for the intervening Bekesbourne Airfield, in Ickham. It was pillbox No.102 in the 1940 list of pillboxes in East Kent (2 December); it was in Sector 3 of the area, at the stated Military Grid reference R 647727. It is thought to have been demolished. (3)
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : Yes
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit :

Pillbox [Sector 3]. Cassini ref 646730. South-East of Bekesbourne. (1-2)

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15191.

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15191.

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15611.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15189.

<1> CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15611.

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

<3> 43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15189.