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Type 24 pillbox, with enclosed entrance.
(Source: Article 1993)
Hexagonal pillbox structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces ESW.
(Source: Map 1966)
Large corrugated iron-shuttered pillbox, based upon an hexagonal design. Stands on a 3ft thick concrete base. Faces N up former line of canal. Entrance on road side. Interior access possible. A porch, shuttered with wood, was added to cover the E-facing doorway later in 1940 when the anti-tank island was laid out. [Information from David Hunt].
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/15)
Bren emplacement. Ref. M.11. Cassini ref. 782323. 3ft 6ins thick walls.
(Source: Document 1941/01/30)
Pillbox known as the 'Cad Green Pill Box'. Camouflaged as a bus stop shelter.
(Source: Document 1940)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On Cad Road at crossing of former Chard Canal, SW of Ilton.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Ilton, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 34549 17010
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1966)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

 
 Ilton anti-tank island - Defences of Ilton anti-tank island (1942, a 'centre of resistance' and later 1943, a category 'C' nodal point). Cassini ref. T7838. [Source:  Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0006786
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0006786
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006786

      

      

        Reference
        
             1993/05 Pillbox Typology Part 2

             1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton

             1941/01/30 Ilton A/T Island

             1940/10/30 Home Defence Progress Report: Taunton Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/12 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/15 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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