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Pillbox by canal bridge and railway line. Appears to be sited to fire east towards but not over hump-backed canal bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/09)
Type 24 pillbox, overlooking Macclesfield Canal. The canal is approx. 10m away. It covers a small bridge. A railway line is situated to the rear. Sited on the W bank of the canal facing E. It has stepped embrasures.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/18)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On canal bridge, on track to Lyne Green, Macclesfield Canal (next to railway line), Sutton Lane Ends.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Macclesfield, Cheshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SJ 910 706
             (Scale: 1:50000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Lowry, Bernard (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 6 - Tamworth via Trent Valley, E side of Stoke-on-Trent, to Macclesfield and Stockport, thence to 6 miles SE of Manchester. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        Also recorded as part of Exercise Welsh Barrier (see report by 2 MI Coy)

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - External views and (2) - external views taken as part of Exercise Welsh Barrier (see report by 2 MI Coy)  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000226

      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 Anti-invasion defences of WWII

             1995/07 Exercise Welsh Barrier

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, Before 1998 

            Field Visit, On 1995/07/18 

            Field Visit, On 1995/07/18 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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