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Type 24 pillbox. Entrance protected by an external attached wall. [The entrance, but not the embrasures, is now bricked up]. Externally, except for the roof, it is completely covered in conventional sized bricks [not sure if brick shuttering or all brick]. Concrete roof. There is an internal brick anti-ricochet wall.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/11/26)
Shell-proof type 24 pillbox.
(Source: Book 1999)
Type 24 pillbox built on an island, with main field of fire S and SW towards Kennet and Avon Canal. Brick-shuttered exterior. Entrance blocked up. [with plan drawn on form].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/26)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        At the E end of Barton Bridge [a foot bridge] over the River Avon. Situated on a small island between the main bridge over the river (Bradford Tithe Barn Bridge) and a smaller bridge over a side stream of the river.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 8230 6052
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1979)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Harvey, Gerald
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Green  - Stop Line - Burnham on Sea to near Melksham (where it joins with the GHQ Line: Blue) and then north to the River Severn at Newnham. This line is also known as the Bristol Outer Line. 
Manned by VIII Corps. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - site location map and sheet of photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - exterior and landscape views (on attached  sheet).  
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Anti-tank blocks 100 metres away at ST 824606: type 24 pillbox to W (ST 800598) and type 26 to E (ST 827597).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000177

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

             1999 Warwalks: Stop Line Green

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/11/26 

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/26 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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