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Circular concrete [type 25?] pillbox constructed without roof and with high level entrance and central well. Four long narrow embrasures. In very good condition. Area C/O, B. Lowry, suggests it could have had a secondary role as an LAA position.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On E boundary fence of Power Station site, Nunns Mill Road, Northampton.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SP 7656 5965
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1988)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Armishaw, A.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Northampton anti-tank island/nodal point - Originally suggested as an anti-tank island with 17 road blocks on roads around the city. When the Northampton was redesignated a nodal point in September 1941 a number (14) of road blocks were removed and three were developed into defended localities. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plans of site

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - external views  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007081

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Northamptonshire SMR (ref: 8567/1/2)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1999/04 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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