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Type 24 pillbox beside hedgerow. Part of Taunton Stop Line, covering River Axe. Faces W/SW. [Recorder unable to inspect site closely]. Appears to be of concrete and breeze block construction. Site shown on RAF 1947 aerial photographs.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/12)
Hexagonal structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Bren emplacement. S.6.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | N of Gardners Farm, beside River Axe, Holditch, nr. Axminster. |
Area |
Thorncombe, Dorset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 3332 0298
(Scale: 1:10000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
Recorder | Horner, W.S. (Devon County Council (Sites and Monuments Record)) |
Defence grouping |
Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. |
DOB site reference: | S0000059 |
Reference |
1947/04/11 CPE/UK/1974 (frs.4322-4323) 1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/07/12 |