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Type 24 pillbox, thick-walled, shuttered with breeze-blocks. Set well into the SE side of the railway embankment with the doorway facing SE. On the upper parts of the walls and on the sloping bevel of the roof there are vertical wooden inserts between the blocks. These inserts might have been used to attach camouflage boarding, nets, etc.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/10)
Type 24 pillbox facing W to cover River Axe. Part of Taunton Stop Line.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/07/12)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1961)
Structure plotted from air photograph. A trampled path leading to the structure indicates it has just been built (or is still being built)
(Source: Air Photograph 1940/07/28)
Bren emplacement. S.9.
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        NE of Broom Bridge, Broom Lane, Holditch, nr. Axminster, on E side of railway embankment.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Thorncombe, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 32759 02603
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1961)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Breeze Block, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Horner, W.S. (Devon County Council (Sites and Monuments Record))
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000099

      

      

        Reference
        
             1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton

             1940/07/28 225A/UK854/1 (frs.27-28)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, During 1996/10 

            Field Visit, During 1996/10 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/07/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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