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Brick-built, single storey pillbox, with flat concrete roof on which at one side a defence position is built. 7 x large embrasures, which have been bricked up to form smaller ones. Steel ladder at doorway to roof. The pillbox is at the SE corner of the site and has the remains of a stove and a hole in the roof for the chimney [it was said to have been used as living quarters].
[Record is accompanied by plans and elevations dated 1941].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/09/10)
Official Name | RAF Bempton C.H.L. Radar Station |
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Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
Location | Bempton Grange, Bempton. |
Area |
Bempton, Yorkshire, East Riding of, England |
Grid reference |
TA 1916 7379
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, Concrete |
Recorder | Dawes, George (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
RAF Bempton C.H.L. Radar Station defences - Ground defences of the Chain Home Radar Station at Bempton, North Yorkshire. |
Attached Sheets | (4) - plans and elevations. |
Photographs |
(4) - exterior views (1 DIGITISED). |
Adjacent sites | [See UORN 12481]. |
DOB site reference: | S0012480 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/09/10 |