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Anti tank blocks plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Anti-tank cubes shown on map.
(Source: Document 1941/01/30)
Type of site | ANTI TANK BLOCK |
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Location | By side of now disused Chard Canal and Merryfield Lane, W of Ilton. |
Area |
Ilton, Somerset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 3440 1750
ST 3445 1737 ST 3459 1731 |
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. Ilton anti-tank island - Defences of Ilton anti-tank island (1942, a 'centre of resistance' and later 1943, a category 'C' nodal point). Cassini ref. T7838. [Source: Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. |
DOB site reference: | S0016385 |
Reference |
1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton 1941/01/30 Ilton A/T Island 1947/04/11 CPE/UK/1974 (fr.2106) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940/06 1940/12 |