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A pillbox which fits no standard layout, being a basically rectangular shape but with the N corner cut off. 4 x embrasures. Brick-shuttered, with finely-pointed brick work. The embrasures and two entrances (high and low-level) are all bricked up. On the W side, the concrete foundation slab is exposed. The beach is some 150 yards away, and the pillbox would have covered a 'chine' (or valley) leading away from the beach towards Westbourne.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/01/17)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        Branksome Chine: at the S end of The Avenue, on an embankment on the W side just before the road bears SW, then runs parallel with the beach.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Poole, Poole, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SZ 066 895
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

 
 Poole anti-tank island - Anti-invasion defences of Poole (Western Command) anti-tank island.
[GHQ and Comd: Cassini U41. 5 Corps Operation Instruction No.41 of 5.9.40 - PRO WO 166/249]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - pillbox plan and site location map.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0013840
         

     (3) - site and exterior views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0013840

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2001/01/17 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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