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Type 24 pillbox with 3 embrasures. Brick and concrete. Possibly built later in the war due to limited number of embrasures and thickness of walls.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/09)
Hexagonal pillbox with 3 x embrasures for mgs. 3-leafed AR screen. [M. Osborne].
(Source: Field Visit )


      

        Official Name
        RAF Sywell
      

      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Next to a gate opposite the entrance to Sywell Grange on the Holcot road N of Sywell village, to the W of the aerodrome.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Sywell, Northamptonshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SP 8175 6796
             (Scale: 1:50000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Armishaw, A.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 RAF Sywell defences - Perimeter defences 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - Air Ministry Drg. 3821/56 (with site marked on) and plan and elervation of pillbox.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0005747
         

     (3) - external views photocopied onto 2 A4 sheets  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005747

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Northamptonshire SMR (ref: 8445/1/9)
        
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, In 1998/09 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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