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Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement.
(Source: Book 1999)
Type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement in field S of canal, with main field of fire W towards Semington Swing Bridge. Brick-shuttered, with one large embrasure and four medium-sized ones.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/26)
Structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1989)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/06/13)
Anti-tank gun emplacement. Ref. 58.
(Source: Document 1940/12)
Rectangular part brick-shuttered anti-tank gun emplacement (type 28A). Doorway on NE side. Main embrasure faces SW. Front and side roof lines chamfered. No access as in a 'Keep Out' field, but a good view can be gained from nearby footpath. A screw picket post (for attaching barbed wire?) is in the hedgerow nearby.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/02/04)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
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Location | In field by footpath just N of St. George's Road, W of Semington. |
Area |
Semington, Wiltshire, England |
Grid reference |
ST 89294 60483
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1989)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. Semington centre of resistance - The defences of Semington on the GHQ Blue Line. After 1940 the defences were developed as a Centre of Resistance (Nodal Point) manned by the 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard. (South Wiltshire Sub Area, 1942 - PRO WO 166/6785). |
Photographs |
(2) - site and exterior views. |
Adjacent sites | Type 28a emplacement to S (ST 893603) and type 22 pillbox to N (ST 895608). |
DOB site reference: | S0008686 |
Reference |
1999 Ironside's Line 1940/12 [copy of map of 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard showing defence positions on the Kennet & Avon Canal] 106G/UK/377 (fr.3159) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/02/04 Field Visit, On 2000/08/26 |