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Gun emplacement (25pdr.) facing SE to cover railway crossing over River Adur [railway bridge has since been demolished]
(Source: Book 1996)
An open backed concrete gun shelter located in open ground in the Adur Valley, with front wall 1.05m thick with wide embrasure and two splayed flank walls. The roof is 280mm thick with a 150mm diameter clay pipe built in vertically at the centre. Across the rear is a dropped beam. All built in reinforced concrete, and, apart from a small area of spalling, is in excellent condition.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/06/23)


      

        Type of site
        GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        300 yards W of River Adur, Church Farm, Coombes Road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Coombes, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 178 035
             (Scale: 1:25000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Martin, R.G. (Sussex Industrial Archaeology Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - plan and elevations (DIGITISED).

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0007662
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007662

      

      

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

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/06/23 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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