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Rare trapezoid-shaped emplacement, with rear totally open. Very large embrasure in front face, crudely partly blocked. No embrasures in side walls, which are thick.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/07/26)
25pdr. gun emplacement, facing E, covering railway bridge over River Arun.
(Source: Book 1996)


      

        Type of site
        GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        In the hedgerow of a field, facing the River Arun, 100 yards W of Ford Road, S of Ford Railway Station.
with site location PLAN drawn on form.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Ford, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 003 041
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1998)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Structure is very overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Burden, Susannah
      

      

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

 
 South East Command: Stop Line (West Sussex) - [Possible] stop line running from the coast W of Littlehampton, and following the course of the River Arun, north via Arundel, Pulborough and Billingshurst (the line of Stane Street Roman road) to join the W - E GHQ Line). 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0003777
         

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

      

        Adjacent sites
        Another similar gun emplacement nearby.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0003777

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6473)
        
      

      

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

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, In the period 1992 1993

            Field Visit, On 1999/07/26 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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