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Type 22 pillbox. Concrete-faced. Now buried to just below the embrasures. [Information from item in 'Western Daily Press'].
(Source: Article 2001/01/19)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Pewsey Road and George Lane, on the bank of the River Kennet by Pewsey road bridge (A345).

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Pewsey, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 158 609
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Development (Medium Term) 
Detail: Proposals to strengthen Pewsey Bridge threaten the pillbox

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        [Unknown] ([Unknown])
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Pewsey Wharf Bridgehead - The defences of Pewsey Wharf on the GHQ Blue Line. The defences were developed as a bridgehead to allow troops counter-attacking an unhindered advance across the Kennet and Avon Canal. During 1941 it was reclassified as a Category C anti-tank island. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0013484
         

     (1) - site view (from newspaper) - DIGITISED.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0013484

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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