Some concrete pill boxes were constructed around the Marsham-Townshend’s house and stood until after the fire which destroyed the 19th century house in January 1976. The Home Guard at Scadbury
A unit of Local Defence Volunteers was formed in Chislehurst in May 1940 which became the 54th Kent Battalion of the Home Guard. Its main defence posts were at Hawkwood, Camden Place, Green Lane, Scadbury and Farrington’s School (which had been requisitioned by the Government).
Col. F W Chamberlain C.B.E., the local commander of the Home Guard, set up P Sector headquarters at Scadbury. Some concrete pill boxes were constructed around the Marsham-Townshend’s house and stood until after the fire which destroyed the 19th century house in January 1976.
A number of bombs fell in the woods and fields of Scadbury during the Second World War. Some of the craters are still visible – one can be seen beside the footpath close to the pond on the Chislehurst Common side of the moated manor site.
The last V1 flying bomb of the Second World War to cause any damage in England fell in the farmyard at Scadbury on 28 March 1945 and demolished a Tudor barn.
