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Concrete type 22 pillbox facing SE. Brick shelter built over entrance door
(Source: Field Visit 1997/05/02)
Pillbox [shown on German map of defences in East Kent].
(Source: Map 1940/08/08)
A type 22 pillbox on the N bank of the Royal Military Canal at Ruckinge. Built of concrete and brick and still in good condition. Its direction is SE, and it has a brick shelter built over the entrance way.
(Source: SMR )
Type FW3/22 pillbox. Entrance partly blocked. Concrete-faced.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/29)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1940/07/12)
Concrete-faced type 22 pillbox of a variant form with an attached brick (slab-roofed) entry porch. No access as just inside field fenced with barbed wire. The entry porch shows signs of collapse. Appears in good, clean condition.
(Source: Field Visit 2004/02/12)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        On N bank of Royal Military Canal E of Ruckinge bridge.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Ruckinge, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TR 02733 33428
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Guy, John A.  (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 South East Command: Stop Line (Romney Marsh) - Stop Line from Rye (East Sussex) to Sandgate E of Hythe (Kent), following the line of the Royal Military Canal. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - sheet of photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0001759
         

     (4) - exterior views printed on sheet; one print.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001759

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Kent SMR (ref: KE 16958: TR 03 SW27)
        
      

      

        Original Reference
        7074
      

      

        Reference
        
             1940/08/08 Sheet (Blatt) 1/73

             1940/07/12 26F/UK1448 (fr.2238)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1997/05/02 

            Field Visit, On 1997/05/27 

            Construction, In the period 1940/07/12 

            Field Visit, On 2004/02/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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