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Pillbox type 22, faces S, covering the beaches and approaches to Thorney Island. Unique brick and concrete embrasures.
(Source: Book 1996)
Brick-shuttered pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/02)
Type 22 hexagonal brick-shuttered pillbox, one of the earliest built (July-Aug. 1940). It has 5 x Turnbull mountings that were not installed until March 1941: these were removed in the early 1950s, but the pintle and holding bolts survive as they are cast into the concrete embrasures. The entrance is on the N side. [This pillbox is on MoD land]. [Recorder Cobb gives NGR - SU 76770100]
(Source: Field Visit 1998/04)
Type 22 hexagonal pillbox. 6 x embrasures. Covers the beaches to Thorney. Unique brick and concrete embrasures.
(Source: SMR 1997)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Located on the S shoreline of Thorney Island, adjacent to the airfield perimeter track at Longmere Point.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 West Thorney, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 7667 0113
             (Scale: 1:50000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Brookhouse, Rita
      

      

        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
        
     (1) - exterior shot.  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002380

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Defence Estate SMR (ref: WSTI34)
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6449)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        7710
      

      

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

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/07 1940/08

            Field Visit, During 1996/02 

            Modification, During 1941/03 

            Dismantlement, partial, In the period 1950 1955

            Field Visit, During 1998/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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