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Field work confirms this type 22 pillbox. Brick-shuttered, although all the brick work, bar the lowest courses, has now gone. Faces SSW. Access to interior is possible. Interior clean. Overgrown. On private land (field) at edge of public right of way. The pillbox was also the position of the main searchlight for Acle [information from Mr. Brian Grint].
(Source: Field Visit 2001/06/27)
Pillbox seen on post-war aerial photographs (1962 and 1975).
(Source: Air Photograph 1962)
Pillbox. Serial no. 64. Documentary reference: Cassini 85332946.
(Source: Document 1940/12)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        At a bend in the track W of St. Mary's Church, NW of Acle.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Upton with Fishley, Norfolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TG 39570 11586
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

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

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Acle nodal point - Defences of Acle category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. G82. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0013686
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0013686
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0013686

      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/07/15 'A' Sector Defence Scheme

             1941/07/15 9 Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment Defence Scheme

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 2001/06/27 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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