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Standard type 24 pillbox (identification no. A255 marked on blast wall). Brick skinned exterior, wood-shuttered interior. Cast concrete shelf supports. Concrete foundations extend 0.7m around outside of pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/03/31)
Type 24 pillbox. Has number A255 stencilled on an interior wall. Brick-shuttered.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/09/23)
Type 24 pillbox. 'Thick-walled'. A255.
(Source: Field Visit 1997)
Pillbox [shown on German map of British defences].
(Source: Map 1941)
Hexagonal pillbox (type 24) plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet. Faces SE.
(Source: Map 1976)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1960/11/05)
Brick-shuttered type 24 pillbox, viewed from a distance. No access without trespass - in private field. Faces River Ouse (SE).
(Source: Field Visit 2003/12/09)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Below disused railway embankment close to bank of River Ouse, S of former Barcombe Mills railway station.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Barcombe, Sussex, East, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 42912 14815
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1976)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (East Sussex) - Newhaven - Crowborough reserve stop line. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0000705
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 24 pillboxes at TQ 428150 and TQ 428145.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000705

      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/06/01 Sheet (Blatt) 134

             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

              The Pillbox Walk

             1960/11/05 58/3915 (fr.79)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1995/03/31 

            Field Visit, During 1997 

            Field Visit, On 1998/09/23 

            Field Visit, On 2003/12/09 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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