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Hexagonal type pillbox, with 7 embrasures: still has parts of grass camouflage on roof and very overgrown. Brick shuttering.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/27)
Standard type 24 pillbox situated on bank of River Medway, with field of fire across river S towards Elliotts Farm. Built low in ground, with sunken entrance. Brick-skinned.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/03/08)
Hexagonal pillbox (type 24) plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces W.
(Source: Map 1969)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Elliott's Farm, close to a sewage works

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Penshurst, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 53290 43860
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Large tree growing up against pillbox.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Urquhart, Cyril
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (East Sussex / Kent) - Section from Crowborough - Penshurst, passing to the W of Tunbridge Wells. 

 
 GHQ Line (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey/Kent) - West - East section of GHQ Line running from Reading through Hampshire and West Surrey to  Kent (Leigh) following in part a line south of the North Downs. 

 
 Penshurst nodal point - Defences of Penshurst Category 'B' nodal point.  Cassini ref. Q9662. [Source:  List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0002418
         

     (2) - exterior views - (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002418

      

      

        Original Reference
        7748
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1998/02/27 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, In the period 1994 1998

            Field Visit, On 1998/03/08 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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