Defence of Britain Database Anti-invasion record: S0005336

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Hexagonal pillbox defending Hopwas Bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 1996)
Type 24 pillbox, thin-walled: faces E. Wood-shuttered.
(Source: Field Visit 1992/11/01)
Type 24 pillbox. Concrete-faced. A good, clean example of this pillbox type. It appears to have been built using wood shuttering. There is no external blast wall. It was built to defend Hopwas Bridge, and is set into a bank overlooking the river. [Information from photographs sent by Staffordshire SMR].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08)
Type 24 pillbox set on bank above river plain, facing ENE towards Hopwas Bridge. Splayed embrasures. Internal blast wall. Remnants of wooden gun shelves. Built using vertically-set wooden plank shuttering. Pebbly concrete matrix. Interior access. This pillbox has been preserved as part of new housing development..
(Source: Field Visit 2002/10/28)
Hexagonal pillbox structure plotted from aerial photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1948/03/27)
Bullet-proof concrete pillbox. Disguised as a haystack. Serial no. 85. Cassini ref. 637253.
(Source: Document 1940/12/27)

Type of site	PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
Location	On front lawn of house (plot 28) in new housing development off Hints Road, Hopwas, on W side of RiverTame.
Area	Wigginton and Hopwas, Staffordshire, England
Grid reference	SK 18027 05055 (Scale: 1:1250 )
Period	WW2
Condition	Good
Materials	Reinforced Concrete
Threats	Type: Development (Immediate) Detail: Currently (August 2000) threatened with demolition. Subject of correspondence with Stafford Archaeology and Conservation Officer. DoB recommend it be protected as a good, clean example of a wood-shuttered type 24 pillbox at an important river bridge crossing of a stop line.
Recorder	Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
Defence grouping	Western Command Stop Line No 5 - Tamworth to Burton-on-Trent and thence by River Dove to Ashbourne
Photographs	(3) - exterior views (DIGITAL format only).
DOB site reference:	S0005336
Associated Identifier	Staffordshire SMR (ref: 5035)
Reference	1940/12/27 Defence Scheme Staffordshire 2 1948/03/27 CPE/UK/2555 (fr.4303)
Event	Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 2000/08 Field Visit, During 1996 Field Visit, On 2002/10/28