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D-shaped pillbox of local design.
(Source: Article 1994)
A variant on a hexagonal concrete type 22 pillbox, built on a high point commanding a path through the hills to the S. Faces S. Doorway on N side. Access, including interior, possible as it lies to one side of a public footpath [this makes it the only one of the Wooler pillboxes to which there is public access without asking permission]. Concrete anti-ricochet wall. One rifle port to left of doorway, and LMG embrasures in each of the forward faces. Earth and grass on roof. Overgrown.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/05/05)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1948/03/22)
Small lozenge-shaped structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1966)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        On high point on W side of track leading through pass through hills S of Waud House, Wooler.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wooler, Northumberland, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            NT 98445 27595
             (Scale: 1:2500
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is partly overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Wooler defended village - Wooler is termed a 'defended village' in an Operation Instruction of the 162nd Infantry Brigade (Oct./Nov. 1940). The defences included six pillboxes and thirteen roadblocks. Field evidence shows there were a further six pillboxes in an arc to the W of the town. (NA): PRO WO 166/1035. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0007296
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007296

      

      

        Reference
        
             1994/06 Northumberland Stop Lines: Wooler to Belford

             1948/03/22 CPE/SCOT/319 (fr.4014)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/05/05 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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