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Pillbox, with brick exterior shuttering over reinforced concrete core. Stands alongside canal feeder channel, overlooking railway and Kennet and Avon Canal. On private farm land, but accessible along farm track. Interior inspection not possible. [Colin Alexander lists it as a type 22 shell-proof].
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/13)
Standard type 22 pillbox situated on elevated position with field of fire to S, SE, and SW across canal and Freewarren Bridge. Brick-shuttered exterior.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/21)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Freewarren Bridge, N of Sam Farmer Lock to N of Kennet and Avon Canal, Crofton.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 258 622
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1998)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Cole, Chris
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0006650
         

     (3) - exterior views (print and SLIDE - one DIGITISED from web site).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 28a anti-tank emplacement to E (SU 261623) and type 22 pillbox to NW (SU 235634).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006650

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/04/13 

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/21 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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