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Type 22 pillbox located in corner of field, very largely overgrown. It faces towards road junction and Warmwell Airfield. Copious amounts of WW2 barbed wire make access difficult. Brick elevations, with concrete roof originally cast on asbestos roofing sheets laid over walls (undulating texture underneath). Entrance [grenade throwing?] with brick retaining wall and 3 steps down to entrance. Inside, T-shaped anti-ricochet wall. Concrete floor. Wall 9.5ins thick. 5 embrasures 25ins wide inside, 14ins wide outside x 10ins high. Embrasures set in concrete within the brick walls.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/04/07)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Tenantrees, West Stafford, nr. Dorchester.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 West Stafford, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 7388 8963
             (Scale: 1:2500
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Matthews, Graham G. 
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Dorchester - Poole Harbour Stop Line - Stop line running E from Dorchester to Wareham and Poole Harbour. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
     (1) - exterior view (attached to form).  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Pillboxes at SY 72159006; SY 72099045; and Home Guard Hut at SY 74508960.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000092

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1996/04/07 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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