Monument record TQ 77 SE 1538 - U2p Rocket Projector Battery Chatham Z2

Site of Second World War sixty-four single barrelled U2P rocket projector battery Chatham Z2 at Hoo St Werburgh. (1)

The location given for the site described by authority 1 falls within an area mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. No features associated with a rocket projector battery of this type could be identified on the aerial photographs available during that survey. A sixty-four single barrelled U2P rocket projector battery, identified as Chatham Z1, was identified 975m to the north west (Monument 1454727). A GL radar mat which has been recorded 295.5m to the south east (Monument 1547246) may be associated with gun emplacements possibly representing a U2P site. (2-3)

2011, RCHME/EH/HE Aerial Photographers comment 01-NOV-2011/English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project (Verbal communication). SKE59226.

<1> Dobinson, C, 1996, Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46 (Monograph). SWX23706.

<2> 1944, NMR US/7GR/LOC348 2064 27-MAY-1944 (Photograph). SKE58993.