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Six-sided pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/09/08)
Type 24 pillbox, with brick supported concrete shelf inside [for mounting weapon, viewing equipment, etc].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08)
Pillbox [Sector 3]. Cassini ref 666754
(Source: Document 1940/11/27)
Pillbox. Serial no. 90. Cassini ref. 666754.
(Source: Document 1940/10/23)
Concrete-faced pillbox. Probably faces E. Seen from a distance. No access.
(Source: Field Visit 2004/02/10)
Pillbox plotted from German map.
(Source: Map 1941/06/01)
Pillbox detailed in journal article. It was positioned under a small copse and camouflaged with netting.
(Source: Article 1991/05)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | At Newplace Farm, on hedge boundary between fields, S of Ickham. |
Area |
Ickham and Well, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TR 2245 5745
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1983)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Bramley, Jon |
Photographs |
(1) - exterior view. |
Adjacent sites | Part of an extant line of pillboxes spread over a few kilometres: see also TR 224579; TR 219586; TR 212596; TR 227567.
|
DOB site reference: | S0001637 |
Original Reference | 6952 |
Reference |
1941/06/01 Sheet (Blatt) 117 1940/10/23 Home Defence Instructions No.95 1991/05 Some Pillboxes and Stop Lines: Aspects of Defence Preparations in East Kent 1940 1940/11/27 List of Pillboxes, Defended Houses, and Roadblocks |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1996/09/08 Construction, By 1940/10 Field Visit, During 1995/08 |