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How to explore responsiblyWhat the official index records
Historic England / Planning Data records this location as Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion. Our atlas groups it under other wartime defences using that source wording.
Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion is recorded by Historic England under reference 1471141. The supplied index identifies Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion. Current condition and visitor access are not established by this source index.
Record details
- Category
- Other wartime defences
- Source classification
- Sheerness Defences: C19 gun emplacements and magazines and early-C20 gun towers, fire-control building and pillbox on the Centre Bastion
- Period / construction dates
- Not established from this index
- Current condition
- Not verified
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Designation date
- 2021-01-21
- Nearest reference town
- Rochester (approximate)
- County / historic source county
- Kent
- County or local authority (ONS)
- Kent
- Nation
- England
- Source record ID
- 1471141
- Coordinates
- 51.444566, 0.752513 (reference point, not an entrance)
- Index checked
- 2026-09-13
- Source last updated
- 2026-08-28
- Published access reviewed
- Not yet verified
Index verification means the record and supplied attributes were checked against the official downloaded index on 2026-09-13. It does not mean a site visit or confirmation of current access. Points may refer to a whole complex, a surviving component or a recorded location.