Building record TR 25 SW 169 - Second World War Type 24 pillbox beside the lane leading to Shepherds Close, Bekesbourne

This is a brick-shuttered Type 24 pillbox at Bekesbourne, on the east side of a lane to Shepherds Close. This was one of three pillboxes in Bekesbourne which, falling well to the south of the Dover, Canterbury, Whitstable Stop Line, and facing outwards form Bekebourne Airfield (in this case south-west), may, at least in part, have been intended as defences for Bekesbourne Airfield, Ickham. It was pillbox No.100 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 642728. It features, as ‘Pill box near Shepherds Close’ in a list of defence works at Bekesbourne to be cleared in 1945; this was evidently never carried out, since the pillbox survives.
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Type 24 pillbox, brick-shuttered. [Recorder, Osborne, gives NGR - TR 200550].

Pillbox [Sector 3]. Cassini ref 642728. On E side of road running SSE from Bekesbourne. (1,2)

Mike Osborne, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15184.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). SKE15186.

43 Division General Staff, 01/01/40, War Diary 43 Division General Staff (Unpublished document). Ske15186.

<1> Mike Osborne, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15184.

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