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A 25ft length of wall retaining the W side of the causeway over the ditch has been loopholed. There are three 9in square loopholes, two now blocked. This wall may have been associated with the adjacent infantry post. (TQ 1859010682).
(Source: Field Visit 2003/08/21)
Revetted infantry post firing E.
(Source: Document 1941/03)
Type of site | INFANTRY POST |
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Location | At W end of Bramber Church, Bramber. |
Area |
Bramber, Sussex, West, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 1860 1062
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Very Bad |
Materials | Unknown |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Steyning, Bramber, and Upper Beeding nodal point - Defences of Upper Beeding category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. Q6329. [Source: Nodal Points, Appendix D to West Sussex Sub-District Defence Scheme, 1943 - (NA:) PRO WO 166/11008]. Steyning to the west was also a designated nodal point. In 1941, these nodal points defending the Adur Gap were known as the Steyning, Bramber, and Upper Beeding nodal point. [Source: 9th Bn. The Royal Welch Fusiliers Defence Scheme, Sept. 1941 - (NA):PRO WO 166/4630. |
DOB site reference: | S0016636 |
Reference |
1941/03 Map - 'Defence of Adur Gap' |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/08/21 |