Summary : A Second World War Type 24 infantry pillbox is located to the east of Bells Lane and south of Ratcliffe Highway, north east of Hoo St Werburgh. The structure, constructed of reinforced concrete and brick shuttering, survives in fair condition, and is listed Grade II. It is one element within the supporting defences of a Stop Line (Monument 1542577) constructed in 1940 across the south western third of the Hoo Peninsula, from the north bank of the Medway to the south bank of the Thames at Higham Creek. The pillbox and the rest of the Stop Line defence system have been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. |
More information : Brick shuttered concrete pillbox, Chattenden. (1)
A Type 24 infantry pillbox facing east-north-east which is located across the line of a former anti-tank ditch. A pecularity is that it has no brickwork above the embrasures. It is situated north of a Type 28 gun emplacement (see HOB UID 1426745) and forms a line of four pillboxes (see HOB UID 1418683 and 1418684). Grade II listed. (2)
A Second World War Type 24 infantry pillbox is located to the east of Bells Lane and south of Ratcliffe Highway, north east of Hoo St Werburgh. The structure, constructed of reinforced concrete and brick shuttering, survives in fair condition, and is listed Grade II. It is one element within the supporting defences of a Stop Line (Monument 1542577) constructed in 1940 across the south western third of the Hoo Peninsula, from the north bank of the Medway to the south bank of the Thames at Higham Creek. The pillbox and the rest of the Stop Line defence system have been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. Other elements of the Stop Line defence system in the immediate vicinity of this pillbox include part of the anti tank ditch (Monument 1542630), the pillboxes noted in authority 2, and another pillbox to the north of Ratcliffe Highway (Monument 1418681). (3-5) |