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Type 24 thick walled pillbox. The rear wall containing the entrance is approx. 20ft long, the exact opposite wall approx 9ft long, and the other walls are approx. 12ft and 10ft long. There is an exterior brick wall, with sloping concrete roof protecting the entrance. Brick facing and concrete roof.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/18)
Type 24 shell-proof pillbox.
(Source: Book 1999)

Type of site PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
Location By a bridge beneath the railway line at Staverton Weir, on land of Gaston Farm, S of the farm itself.
Area Holt, Wiltshire, England
Grid reference ST 8634 6112 (Scale: 1:2500 , 1979)
Period WW2
Condition Good
Materials Clay Brick, Concrete
Recorder Harvey, Gerald
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.
Attached Sheets (2) site location map and sheet of photographs.
Photographs (2) exterior views (attached to sheet).
DOB site reference: S0000207
Reference 1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences
1999 Ironside's Line
1999 Warwalks: Stop Line Green
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941
Field Visit, On 1996/09/18


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