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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) |
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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
)
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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 |
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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 |