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Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement - faces W (280 degrees). Of irregular hexagonal form. Brick shuttered concrete, with concrete roof and large embrasure Large embrasure for anti-tank gun, and one embrasure in rear blast wall. Some damage to end of rear blast wall, which has a large entrance for the gun via a dog-leg.
(Source: Field Visit 1990/08/30)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement of variant form. Brick-shuttered. Faces NW. [Ref: SU84/67].
(Source: Field Visit 1988/07/07)
Anti-tank artillery pillbox; brick-shuttered.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/06/05)
Massive brick-shuttered anti-tank gun emplacement, with an attached brick and concrete-walled open area (loopholed) protecting the entrance. Main anti-tank gun embrasure faces W. This may have been an emplacement for an 18pdr.or 75 mm QF field gun, presumably acting in an anti-tank role. Access to interior possible. By side of public footpath.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/06/29)


      

        Type of site
        FIELD GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        On footpath between B3001 and Moor Park House, SE of Farnham near River Wey - in Moor Park Nature Reserve.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Farnham, Surrey, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 86719 46028
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The anti-tank emplacement is overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Surrey Industrial Society survey  (Surrey Industrial Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey/Kent) - West - East section of GHQ Line running from Reading through Hampshire and West Surrey to  Kent (Leigh) following in part a line south of the North Downs. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of FIELD GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0009971
         

     (1) - exterior view of main embrasure: also see p90 'Ironside's Line'.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0009971

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1990/08/30 

            Field Visit, On 1988/07/07 

            Field Visit, On 2001/06/29 

            Field Visit, On 2000/06/05 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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