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Type 22 pillbox, the only example of this type on the Taunton Stop Line.
(Source: Article 1996)
Pillbox - faces NW. Covers bridge over River Isle.
(Source: Field Visit 1987/01)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        On the W outskirts of Ilminster, near the Horlicks factory.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Ilminster Without, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 347 151
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Immediate) 
Detail: A Mr. Neil Johns noted a pillbox and anti-tank blocks in the area of this type 22 pillbox [ST 346147] that are threatened by current development works (30.8.00).

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Hellis, John
      

      

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

 
 Ilminster anti-tank island - Defences of Ilminster anti-tank island (1942, a 'centre of resistance', and later 1943, a category 'C' nodal point). Cassini ref. T7935. [Source:  Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007384

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999/12 Dorset Attacked, Dorset Defended

             1996 The Taunton Stop-Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, During 1987/01 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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