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Rectangular pillbox (wood-shuttered) with guarded entrance and open section to east. 4 large slit type embrasures with 1 medium. No blast wall. No other examples of this type in area (or seen anywhere as yet) - must have been built to suit for a purpose. [Recorder suspects 'to defend possible landing strip?].
(Source: Field Visit 1991/07/06)
Pillbox of unknown design, covering bridge over river at Boship Farm and the river E of its position. [Recorder Sholl gives NGR - TQ 574112].
(Source: Field Visit 1998/07/14)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        Welbury Farm, Lower Horsebridge, near Hailsham - in field E of Boship roundabout.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Hellingly, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 575 111
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1990)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete, 
            Wood
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 South East Command: Division Stop Line - Stop line created by 38th (Welsh) Division, running W-E across parts of Hampshire, West and East Sussex, and Kent from Petersfield to the coast E of Hastings [See '38th (Welsh) Division Defence Scheme' - PRO WO 166/482]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0001504
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0001504
         

     (16) - 10 exterior and 6 interior views, inc. 6 photocopies (2 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001504

      

      

        Original Reference
        6813
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1991/07/06 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, In the period 1992 1994

            Field Visit, On 1998/07/14 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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