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Type 22 pillbox, with very thick detached blast wall (27ins of concrete plus 13.5ins of brick) to rear. 9ft 6ins walls. Corrugated iron spans the gap between the pillbox and the blast wall and earth has been added over this. Small embrasures, widely splayed to the outside.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/28)
Type 22 pillbox. Thick detached blast wall to rear. Built of reinforced concrete and in good condition.
(Source: SMR )
Type 22 pillbox of variant form, with guarded covered concrete entrance; brick straight blast wall. Vertical wood inserts for shelves fitted under each embrasure. 4 x main embrasures blocked by brickwork. Entrance rifle embrasure blocked by later construction. Field of fire S towards Folkestone. with PLAN drawn on form. [Recorder Farthing gives NGR - TR 239378 which may be to this site, or it is possible that Farthing's site is a new one].
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Pillbox [Sector 5]. Cassini ref 682555
(Source: Document 1940/11/27)

Type of site PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
Location On the top of a bank, 100m downhill from The Valiant Sailor public house - Crete Road East, Dover Hill.
Area Folkestone, Kent, England
Grid reference TR 2410 3770 (Scale: 1:50000 )
Period WW2
Condition Good
Materials Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete
Recorder Burridge, David (Defence of Britain Project)
Defence grouping Kent coast defences - Defences of the Kent coastal crust and immediate hinterland.
Folkestone nodal point - Defences of Folkestone nodal point. [Source: '12 Corps Plan to Defeat Invasion', 16 May 1941 - PRO WO 166/344].
Photographs (1) - exterior view.
DOB site reference: S0000843
Associated Identifier Kent SMR (ref: KE16507: TR 23 NW 194)
Reference 1940/11/27 List of Pillboxes, Defended Houses, and Roadblocks
Event Construction, By 1940/11
Field Visit, On 1995/07/28
Field Visit, On 1999/06/03


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