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Type 26 (variant - no rear embrasure) situated on beach with field of fire along beach E/W and out to sea. Upper surface of pillbox is pebble-dashed for camouflage. Wood-shuttered. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/05/26)
Square pillbox, half pebble-dashed (camouflage). 7ft 6ins tall; sides 10ft long; walls 18ins thick. Constructed on concrete plinth 12ft x 12ft x 12ins (thick). Four retaining bolts on roof at front.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08)

Type of site PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26)
Location Chesil Beach, below East Bexington Farm.
Area Abbotsbury, Dorset, England
Grid reference SY 5442 8551 (Scale: 1:50000 , 1982)
Period WW2
Condition Good
Materials Reinforced Concrete, Wood
Threats Type: Coastal erosion (Medium Term)
Detail: Sea erosion threatens pillbox.
Recorder Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
Defence grouping Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland.
Photographs View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - S0006496 View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - S0006496
(9) - exterior views and close-ups (2 DIGITISED).
Adjacent sites Type 22 pillboxes at SY 547858 and SY 555852.
DOB site reference: S0006496
Reference 1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941
Field Visit, On 1998/05/26
Field Visit, During 2000/08


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