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Vickers medium machine gun pillbox, thick-walled, externally shuttered with breeze blocks and internally with brick. Concrete blast wall. The concrete gun platform is still in place. The blockwork outside has weathered. The brick interior lining, the concrete roof and bench and concrete blast wall are all in very good condition.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/03)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1961)
Vickers emplacement externally faced with breeze blocks near hedgerow of lane. Detached external blast wall. Concrete gun table. Brick-lined inside. Large embrasure faces W. No access without permission.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/14)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Vickers emplacement S.V.3.
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        In field at top of slope, SE of Wadbrook.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Hawkchurch, Devon, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 32631 01551
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1961)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Breeze Block, 
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Dangerfield, M.E. (Axminster Historical Society)
      

      

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

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0001314
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001314

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Devon SMR (ref: ST30SW/125)
        
      

      

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

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

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/12 

            Field Visit, During 1997/03 

            Field Visit, During 1997/03 

            Field Visit, During 1997/03 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/14 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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