Monument record TR 15 NW 1156 - Second World War fortified house on or near the Lime Works at the south end of Lime Kiln Road, Canterbury

A building on or near the Lime Works at the south end of Lime Kiln Road (Military Grid Reference R 587748) had been adopted as a ‘fortified house’ by November 1940. This was fortified house No. 34 in a list of such structures made 2 December that year. There was a nearby bridge across the Elham Valley Railway Line (which may, locally, have been prepared as a secondary defensive line west of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line) and this may explain the location. This was one of a string of fortified houses defending Canterbury’s southern edge.
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CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15563.

CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15563.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15562.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15562.