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Flat slab top, mixture of local stone and concrete. Embrasures now almost at ground level.
Pillbox described by the recorder as of the 'Woodford Type'. [No description of the 'Woodford Type' exists; no further information from other records exist to ascribe a type]. - [from other Woodford examples, the type appears to have long embrasures, be set low in the ground, and have a thin, overhanging concrete slab roof - AWF].
(Source: Field Visit 1998/04/05)
Official Name | RAF Woodford |
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Local Name | Woodford Airfield |
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
Location | On the B5358 road, at the junction of Mill Lane and Bonis Hall Lane, nr. the old Woodford Airfield, Woodford. |
Area |
Poynton with Worth, Cheshire, England |
Grid reference |
SJ 8920 8045
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1984)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Concrete, Stone |
Recorder | Harrison, J Peter |
Defence grouping |
RAF Woodford defences - Perimeter and ground defences |
DOB site reference: | S0000223 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Excavation, On 1998/04/05 |