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Machine gun emplacement, facing W, defending the beaches of the Emsworth Channel, 'Unique' construction; built from large pre-cast concrete blocks. [Recorder Osborne gives NGR - SU 748035].
(Source: Book 1996)


      

        Type of site
        MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        Thorney Island; located on the E shore of the Island, 600 yards from Emsworth Road, Thorney Island.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 West Thorney, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 7489 0302
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete Block, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Mace, Martin (Historic Military Press)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

 
 RAF Thorney Island defences - Defences of the airfield of RAF Thorney Island. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - 2 exterior, 1 interior views.  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002376

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Defence Estate SMR (ref: WSTI31)
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6445)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        7706
      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 Frontline Sussex: The Defence Lines of West Sussex 1939-1945.

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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