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Anti-tank gun emplacement combined with infantry pillbox. A concrete interior wall divides the emplacement. [An attempt made some years ago to blow it up, but with no success: however, there is external damage around an embrasure].
Recorder Farthing records a detached holdfast mounting at NGR - TQ 547454, which may be associated with this emplacement (2 photographs DIGITISED). Recorder Urquhart gives NGR - TQ 550455].
(Source: Field Visit 1998/03/08)
Type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement, with holdfast mounting. Field of fire E towards Ensfield Bridge road/river crossing. Bad damage to one LMG embrasure. Brick-shuttered.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/03/01)
Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement (for 6pdr. Hotchkiss gun).
Circular concrete plinth at TQ 54724541, with nine bolts and nuts. Sited within ten feet of small drain close to River Medway.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
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Location | NNW of Ensfield Bridge, in field on E side of road from Ensfield railway station. |
Area |
Leigh, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 5479 4545
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1981)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
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. |
Attached Sheets | (2) - further information and site location map. |
Photographs |
(8) - 4 exterior views and 1 interior, and 3 of holdfast mounting - 3 DIGITISED. |
DOB site reference: | S0000934 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1998/03/05 Field Visit, In the period 1994 1998 Field Visit, On 1998/03/01 Field Visit, On 1998/03/08 Field Visit, During 2000/08 |