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Anti-tank block, situated on W side of bridge over River Eden. Part of anti-tank block damaged with reinforcement exposed.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/05/03)
Eroded concrete block some six feet long and two feet high, presumably part of a roadblock.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/01)


      

        Type of site
        ANTI TANK BLOCK
      

      

        Location
        On NW side of bridge over River Eden W of Penshurst village.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Penshurst, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 52063 43797
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 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
        
     (1) - site view.  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008346

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, In the period 1994 1998

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1998/05/03 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/01 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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