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Square pillbox, some 8ft square with walls 14ins-15ins thick.
(Source: Article 1993)
Square pillbox, the lower part of which is brick and the upper part concrete. There is a covered brick entrance way with a concrete roof and a wooden door. The embrasures in three of the faces are narrow slits some 5ft long x 6ins high. It stands with other buildings in a wired compound.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/04)
Square type of pillbox, guarding pumping station at roadside. Brick-shuttered. Some of the bricks are damaged and the concrete has cracked and fallen off around the embrasures. The embrasures are in each face. There is no internal blast wall. The pillbox stands today in a fenced compound owned by Royal Ordnance. [with drawing on form].
(Source: Field Visit 2001/08/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On A39 road near the junction with a road from Bridgwater at the point where it crosses the River Cary at Knowle, SW of Woollavington.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Woolavington, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 330 400
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site location plan.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0006969
         

     (5) - exterior views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006969

      

      

        Reference
        
              Pillbox Typology Part 3: Square and Rectangular Types

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2001/08/04 

            Field Visit, During 2000/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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