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Rectangular pillbox, with internal dimensions of 7ft x 8ft, with walls 42ins thick. In the front wall is a large stepped embrasure 5ft across on the outside. With a blast wall with an embrasure.
(Source: Article 1993)
Square brick-shuttered medium machine gun emplacement. Forward-facing two corners are 'cut-off'. Concrete firing table. Large stepped main embrasure. Corrugated-iron shuttered roof. Non-attached blast wall on S side. Partly overgrown. Faces W.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/08/27)
Square pillbox structure with attached porch plotted from air photograph. Faces N.
(Source: Air Photograph )
Type of site | VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | At edge of old quarry pit on the side of a hillock, S of Poulter's Bridge. |
Area |
Crookham Village, Hampshire, England |
Grid reference |
SU 79667 51555
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Corrugated Iron, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: The emplacement is partly overgrown. |
Recorder | Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
Aldershot Command: Fleet / Farnham stop line - Short length of stop line (a switch line), part of the perimeter defences of Aldershot, running S from the Fleet area via Pilcot and Crookham to join the GHQ Line NW ofr Farnham [Source: Aldershot Command memorandum CRAC No.4 4/2997/55 (G), 17 July 1940 - TNA: PRO WO 199/55) |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0006974 |
Reference |
Pillbox Typology Part 3: Square and Rectangular Types 1946/01/12 106G/UK/1114 (fr.3031) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2003/08/27 |