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Vickers emplacement. N.V.1. Cassini ref. 726643.
(Source: Document 1940)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/01/23)
Vickers emplacement (N.V.1) camouflaged as cottage with pitched roof, chimney, and surrounding garden.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type of site | VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | On W side of Pawlett Hill Road, N of Gaunt's Farm.
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Area |
Pawlett, Somerset, England |
Grid reference |
ST 2869 4305
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0016333 |
Reference |
1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton 1940 [copies of Royal Engineers drawings of camouflaged emplacements on the Taunton Stop Line] 1947/01/23 CPE/UK/1944 (frs.3186-3187) 1940/10/30 Home Defence Progress Report: Taunton Line |
Event |
Construction, By 1940/09 |