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Pillbox, with brick exterior shuttering over reinforced concrete core. Stands alongside canal feeder channel, overlooking railway and Kennet and Avon Canal. On private farm land, but accessible along farm track. Interior inspection not possible.
[Colin Alexander lists it as a type 22 shell-proof].
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/13)
Standard type 22 pillbox situated on elevated position with field of fire to S, SE, and SW across canal and Freewarren Bridge. Brick-shuttered exterior.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/21)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | Freewarren Bridge, N of Sam Farmer Lock to N of Kennet and Avon Canal, Crofton. |
Area |
Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England |
Grid reference |
SU 258 622
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1998)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Cole, Chris |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. |
Photographs |
(3) - exterior views (print and SLIDE - one DIGITISED from web site). |
Adjacent sites | Type 28a anti-tank emplacement to E (SU 261623) and type 22 pillbox to NW (SU 235634). |
DOB site reference: | S0006650 |
Reference |
1999 Ironside's Line |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1999/04/13 Field Visit, On 2000/08/21 |