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Entrance to pillbox is on south facing side: it is sunken and the floor of the pillbox is underground but above sea level. Pillbox has only two embrasures - one faces inland the other towards the sea.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/02/01)
Square pillbox, partly sunken. Brick-shuttered.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/10/26)
Large rectangular, brick shuttered pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/08)


      

        Official Name
        RAF Cark
      

      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        Car park at West Plain Farm, Flookburgh.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Grange over Sands, Cumbria, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SD 3690 7428
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1979)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) 
Detail: The brick-shuttering has largely fallen away.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Allison, J.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 RAF Cark defences - Ground and perimeter defences 

 
 Cumbria coast defences - Defences of the Cumbria coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - pages with attached photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0002901
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0002901
         

     (6) - external views (2 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Pillbox: SD 368741

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002901

      

      

        Original Reference
        8272
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1981 Action Stations 3, Military Airfields of Wales and the North West

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/02/01 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/10/26 

            Field Visit, On 1995/08/08 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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