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A type 25 pillbox built on the W edge of the beach exit. Dimensions, 9ft diameter, 16ins thick walls, 4ins thick roof, supported by corrugated sheeting. Structure is in very poor condition; the roof has fallen in revealing the quarter inch iron reinforcing rods. Originally 3 embrasures. However only part of one remains, 10ins high. Entrance at rear. Structure protrudes 27ins above the ground at the front elevation.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/07/30)
Partially demolished 'Armco' pillbox - faces S. 3 embrasures. Built into cliff slope, with entrance in ditch. Roof smashed in. [Surrey Industrial Society record gives NGR - SY 87107983].
(Source: Field Visit 1989/08/25)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/25)
      

      

        Location
        Worbarrow Bay, near Tyneham.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Tyneham, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 8708 7982
             (Scale: 1:50000
              ,  )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Very Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Coastal erosion (Medium Term) 
Detail: Cliff erosion a threat.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Matthews, Graham G. 
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (1) - site view.  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Worbarrow Bay defence structures - anti-tank blocks at SY 87107960 and SY 87057970; type 25 pillbox at SY 86648030; and Alan Williams turret SY 87147980.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003135

      

      

        Original Reference
        8543
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/07/30 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1989/08/25 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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