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Possible type 22 variant pillbox. 4 embrasures, all blocked up. Set into bank of River Adur, with field of fire across river and to airfield. Very poor condition. Steps down to entrance. Brick blast wall. with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/11/11)
Type 22 pillbox facing E to cover River Adur; also part of airfield defences.
(Source: Book 1996)


      

        Official Name
        RAF Shoreham
      

      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        On the W bank of the River Adur at Shoreham Airport.


      

      

        Area
        
 
 Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 2048 0586
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1995)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 RAF Shoreham defences - Defences of Shoreham airfield. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (2) - exterior views (1 photocopy)..  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Non-standard pillbox to SW, TQ 208059.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007623

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            West Sussex SMR (ref: 6555)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1996 Frontline Sussex: The Defence Lines of West Sussex 1939-1945.

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/11/11 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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