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A pillbox located on a hillside. It commands the approach up the valley road and overlooks the CH and CHL radar station bunker. It is built from concrete shuttering with a red brick fascia on front and sides [the brick is very likely the shuttering].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/21)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
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Location | Ringstead, nr. Weymouth, 200 yards from the Ringstead Bay Road. |
Area |
Owermoigne, Dorset, England |
Grid reference |
SY 7466 8204
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
Recorder | Matthews, Graham G. |
Defence grouping |
Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. |
Photographs | (1) - exterior view. |
Adjacent sites | RAF Ringstead radar station at SY 74818137. |
DOB site reference: | S0000111 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/07/21 |