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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) |
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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 |
(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 |