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Concrete-faced type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement. It is used today as an Environment Agency stores, and is threatened with demolition for development.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/12/04)
Concrete-faced anti-tank gun emplacement with LMG side-chamber. Chamfered roof edge. Main embrasure faces N across river. Three LMG embrasures, one beside the main embrasure in the N face.The emplacement is used today as a store by the Environment Agency, and the main embrasure is glazed and boarded, and the LMG embrasures blocked in with air bricks. The entrance now has a door in place. No access without permission.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/17)
Large, rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A)
      

      

        Location
        At Allington Lock on River Medway, within Environment Agency building yard.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Maidstone, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 74836 58082
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Medium Term) 
Detail: There are provisional plans, apparently, to demolish the pillbox and erect a new building on the site.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Urquhart, Cyril
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (North West Kent) - GHQ Line running from Leigh to River Thames via Medway valley. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - additional sheet of site information.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - S0009510
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) - S0009510
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0009510

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/12/04 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/17 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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