Monument record TR 26 NW 1113 - Pillbox beside the Thanet Way near Gray’s Farm, Chislet

This was a pillbox overlooking, and right next to the Thanet Way, on its south side. It looks to have been a perfect-hexagonal Type 23 pillbox. If this is so then it is rather unusual in this part of the country. The Thanet Way was a major new road (1934) and would have offered invaders a very inviting route toward London; this was among a series of pillboxes built along its route. In particular, it is likely to have covered a roadblock where the Thanet Way crossed the North Stream, some way to the east. This was pillbox No.5 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 670857. It was probably destroyed during alterations to the Thanet Way.
Owner : Unknown
Publicly accessible : Unknown
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Condition : Destroyed
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CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15368.

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15368.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15367.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15367.