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Anti-tank ditch dug partly using existing ditches.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/06/13)


      

        Type of site
        ANTI TANK DITCH
      

      

        Location
        From the Semington Brook, running to the SE of Semington as far W as St. George's Hospital.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Semington, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 8924 6024
            

            ST 8934 6028
            

            ST 8939 6034
            

            ST 8971 6035
            

            ST 8993 6043
            

            ST 9017 6043
            

            ST 9030 6055
            

            ST 9031 6074
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Infilled

      

      

        Materials
        
            Earthwork
        
      

      

        Recorder
         (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Green  - Stop Line - Burnham on Sea to near Melksham (where it joins with the GHQ Line: Blue) and then north to the River Severn at Newnham. This line is also known as the Bristol Outer Line. 
Manned by VIII Corps. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0016363

      

      

        Reference
        
             1940/12 [copy of map of 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard showing defence positions on the Kennet & Avon Canal]

             1945/06/13 106G/UK/377 (fr.4041)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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