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Square pillbox constructed of breeze blocks covering railway crossing and Broom Bridge over River Axe, with its road block, to the W. Part of Taunton Stop Line. [ According to Mr. Harris of Gardners Farm this pillbox was originally brick clad, presumably as camouflage to merge with the adjoining house. Visible on 1947 RAF AP.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/12)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Bren emplacement. S.11. Rectangular. Cassini ref. 762237.
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        Situated on N side of 'Broom Gates' on Holditch Lane, nr. Tytherleigh, NE of Axminster.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Thorncombe, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 3267 0243
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Breeze Block, 
            Clay Brick
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Horner, W.S. (Devon County Council (Sites and Monuments Record))
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000105

      

      

        Reference
        
             1947/04/11 CPE/UK/1974 (frs.4322-4323)

             1995 Farmer of Gardners Farm - position of pillboxes and gun emplacements

             1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton

             1940/10/30 Home Defence Progress Report: Taunton Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/07/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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