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Pillbox of square type [which may be based on a type 28 design without the large central embrasure]. Brick skinned, interior and exterior. No interior blast wall. The rear entrance is approx. 1 metre wide. Interior is whitewashed, with vertical recesses cut into the walls below the embrasures. Generally good condition inside, but some modern graffiti. The pillbox guards the E approach to the hamlet of Coopers Green and the town of Uckfield to the S.
with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/02/19)
Type of site | PILLBOX |
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Location | Buxted Park, Buxted. |
Area |
Buxted, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 492 253
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line (East Sussex / Kent) - Section from Crowborough - Penshurst, passing to the W of Tunbridge Wells. |
Adjacent sites | Type 24 pillbox at TQ 493233. |
DOB site reference: | S0000692 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/02/19 |