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Pillbox - site marked on map supplied by recorder, John Guy.
(Source: Field Visit )
Small hexagonal type 22 pillbox, a variant inasmuch as there are two rifle ports, one each side of the entrance. Concrete-faced. Square, stepped embrasures. Faces W. Stands on small mound with thin concrete base partly exposed. Overgrown on one side. On private land and no access.
(Source: Field Visit 2004/02/10)
Pillbox plotted from German defences map. It is surrounded by a barbed wire perimeter.
(Source: Map 1940/09/03)
Hexagonal pillbox. Faces W. Plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/09/10)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        SW of Bolingbroke Bridge on the S side of the River Wantsum, Sarre.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Sarre, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TR 2517 6480
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is partly overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Guy, John A.  (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sarre nodal point - Defences of Sarre  Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R7083. [Source:  List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site location map.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0013475
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0013475

      

      

        Reference
        
             1946/09/10 106G/UK/1724 (fr.3044)

             1940/09/03 Sheet (Blatt) 40

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2004/02/10 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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