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Anti-tank pillbox (brick-shuttered); very overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/27)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement, brick-shuttered, situated adjacent to the road. Field of fire S to Long Bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/20)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1969)
Square anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick-shuttered. Faces S towards Long Bridge. One main embrasure and two LMG embrasures. Chamfered corners but with untrimmed bricks. Access possible (near field gate) including interior. 6pdr. gun holdfast in situ.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/02)

Type of site PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28)
Location Off the Penshurst to Fordcombe Road (B2188), near Long Bridge; just inside field gate.
Area Penshurst, Kent, England
Grid reference TQ 52408 43308 (Scale: 1:2500 , 1969)
Period WW2
Condition Fair
Materials Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete
Threats Type: Plant growth (Long Term)
Detail: Emplacement very overgrown.
Recorder Urquhart, Cyril
Defence grouping GHQ Line (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey/Kent) - West - East section of GHQ Line running from Reading through Hampshire and West Surrey to Kent (Leigh) following in part a line south of the North Downs.
Penshurst nodal point - Defences of Penshurst Category 'B' nodal point. Cassini ref. Q9662. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544].
Photographs View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0002434 View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0002434 View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0002434
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0002434
(3) - exterior views.
DOB site reference: S0002434
Original Reference 7764
Event Field Visit, On 1998/02/27
Field Visit, During 1997
Field Visit, In the period 1994 1998
Field Visit, On 1998/02/20
Field Visit, On 2003/12/02


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