Monument record TR 15 NE 1023 - Second World War machine-gun emplacement adjoining Spring Lane, Canterbury

Summary

There was a Second World War machine-gun emplacement in the south-east corner of a field adjoining Spring Lane. Fire would have been directed south-eastwards along Spring Lane to guard this approach to Canterbury.

Location

Grid reference TR 1600 5755 (point)
Map sheet TR15NE
County KENT
District CANTERBURY, KENT
Civil Parish CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

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Full Description

There was a Second World War machine-gun emplacement in the south-east corner of a field adjoining Spring Lane. The site is marked as weapon pit on the 1941 Canterbury Fortress plan. This can be seen on immediate post-war aerial photographs as a ragged round hole (not a bomb crater) of about 5m radius, with soil heaped-up around the edge. Might this represent the emplacement partially dismantled? Fire would have been directed south-eastwards along Spring Lane to guard this approach to Canterbury.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
How accessed for survey :
Tourism Potential :
Condition : Destroyed
Date of visit :


Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). SKE15482.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/41, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941 (Unpublished document). Ske15482.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). SKE15483.

Canterbury Fortress headquarters, 01/01/42, War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942 (Unpublished document). Ske15483.

Sources/Archives (4)

  • --- Unpublished document: Canterbury Fortress headquarters. 01/01/41. War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941.
  • --- Unpublished document: Canterbury Fortress headquarters. 01/01/41. War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1941.
  • --- Unpublished document: Canterbury Fortress headquarters. 01/01/42. War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942.
  • --- Unpublished document: Canterbury Fortress headquarters. 01/01/42. War Diary Canterbury Fortress 1942.

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Record last edited

Aug 4 2009 5:54AM