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Standard type 24 pillbox (identification no. A256 marked on blast wall). Brick skinned. Cast concrete shelf supports. The brick shuttering is of better quality than all other adjacent pillboxes, and has consequently eroded less.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/03/31)
Pillbox type 24. Brick-shuttered. Has the number 256 stencilled on an inside wall.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/09/23)
Hexagonal pillbox (type 24) plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces E.
(Source: Map 1976)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Near Culver Farm, close to bank of River Ouse. |
Area |
Barcombe, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 42792 14498
(Scale: 1:2500
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line (East Sussex) - Newhaven - Crowborough reserve stop line. |
Photographs | (1) - exterior view. |
Adjacent sites | Type 24 pillboxes at TQ 429148 and TQ 429142. |
DOB site reference: | S0000704 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences The Pillbox Walk |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/03/31 Field Visit, On 1998/09/23 |