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Standard type 24 pillbox, situated behind a hedge. Pillbox is in excellent condition with all the [asbestos?] flaps for the embrasures intact.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/10/26)
Type 24 pillbox, with earth on roof.
(Source: Article 1993)
Type 24 pillbox; brick-shuttered - faces S. [Ref: SU75/86].
(Source: Field Visit 1988/02/19)
Pillbox - type 24. Overgrown and flooded. Well dug in (four steps down). Asbestos embrasure shutters in place. Metal hooks for camouflage netting.
(Source: SMR )
Pillbox plotted from air photograph reproduced in Wills' book.
(Source: Book 1985)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Bowenhurst Copse, between Crookham Village and Bowling Alley Lane.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Crondall, Hampshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 7922 5045
             (Scale: 1:10000
              , 1985)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is overgrown.

            Type: Flooding (Medium Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is subject to flooding.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Potts. K.J.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey/Kent) - West - East section of GHQ Line running from Reading through Hampshire and West Surrey to  Kent (Leigh) following in part a line south of the North Downs. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006826

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Hampshire SMR (ref: SU75SE 43)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1993/05 Pillbox Typology Part 2

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1988/02/19 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/10/26 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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