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Type 22 pillbox, single-storey, regular hexagonal plan, flat roof, narrow stepped embrasures. Set into river bank; door in NE wall.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/10/27)
Type 22 pillbox, made of poured concrete. L-shaped external blast wall.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/10/14)
Type 22 pillbox with 'L' shaped external blast wall protecting doorway. 15ins (38mm) thick concrete walls. [SGP/SK/33].
(Source: Field Visit 1996/06/22)
Type 22 pillbox dug into side of dyke bank. Concrete-faced, with a damaged attached exterior blast wall. Faces W. Exterior access possible across marshes, otherwise on private farmland.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/07/26)
Hexagonal pillbox encircled by barbed wire. The barbed wire was constructed some time after July 1940 and had been removed by October 1945.
(Source: SMR 2001)
Hexagonal structure plotted from 1:2500 OS sheet.
(Source: Map 1968)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | On W side of dyke, Bawdsey Marshes, Bawdsey. |
Area |
Bawdsey, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TM 33190 38330
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1968)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Thomas, Roger J.C. (English Heritage (York Office)) |
Defence grouping |
Suffolk coast defences - Defences of the Suffolk coastline and immediate hinterland. |
Attached Sheets | (2) Area site location plan and sheet with xeroxed photographs. |
Photographs |
(3) - site views (two - photocopies). |
DOB site reference: | S0006083 |
Associated Identifier | Suffolk SMR (ref: XS19360) |
Reference |
1945/10/16 Aerial photographs - Bawdsey area (3) 1945/09/23 Aerial Photographs - Bawdsey area (5) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/10/14 Field Visit, On 1995/10/27 Field Visit, On 2002/07/26 Field Visit, On 1996/06/22 |