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Gun emplacement (25pdr.) facing SE to cover road crossing over the River Adur. The structure has been demolished down to base level.
(Source: Book 1996)
Rectangular structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/09/21)
No sign of this structure observed during field work.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/08/21)


      

        Type of site
        GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        At Bramber, 50 yards NW of Beeding Bridge in The Street (B2135).

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bramber, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 1905 1061
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Unknown

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Mace, Martin (Historic Military Press)
      

      

        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. 

 
 South East Command: River Adur Stop Line - Stop line running N from Shoreham-by-Sea following the course of the River Adur to Henfield, and then on to Horsham. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002236

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6525)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        7565
      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 Frontline Sussex: The Defence Lines of West Sussex 1939-1945.

             1946/09/21 CPE/UK/1751 (frs.3133-3134)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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