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Type 28 pillbox [sic], with blast wall; facing WNW on Old Canal embankment.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/09/25)
Vickers heavy machine gun emplacement in an enfilade position along the disused Chard Canal embankment. This is emplacement NV18 on the Taunton Stop Line, and one of a pair. It also covers the Hammonds Farm canal bridge. It is sited under the forward edge of the scarped canal bank on the 'enemy' side of the obstacle but within the planned barbed wire entanglement.
(Source: Field Visit 2001)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        On Old Chard Canal embankment SSE of Hammonds Farm and NW of Wrantage

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Thornfalcon, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 304 228
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1990)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Thomson, L.E.J.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

 
 Wrantage anti-tank island - Defences of Wrantage anti-tank island (1942, a 'centre of resistance' and later 1943, category 'C' nodal point). Cassini ref. T7443. [Source:  Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0002970
         

     (1) - site view (DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 24 pillbox at ST 310281.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0002970

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Somerset SMR (ref: 44326)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        8360
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/09/25 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 2001 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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