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Large square pillbox. [Seen from passing train].
(Source: Field Visit 1999/08/15)
Pillbox, which, as camouflage, had a tiled roof and attached canvas sheets painted to look like the windows of a house.
(Source: Article 1996)
Six-sided pillbox, two storeys in height, rising to be on a level with the rail tracks from its base at the foot of the embankment. Outer brick shuttering and a coat of render over the brick. There was an entrance [now bricked up] almost at ground level below the railway embankment. There was another entrance higher up on another side of the structure: this would have had to have been approached by a ladder. One of the embrasures on the upper level has been blocked up.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/03)
Pillbox to guard railway/road bridge. No entrance protection. Internal blast wall. [with plan drawn on form].
(Source: Field Visit 2001/09/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (VARIANT)
      

      

        Location
        On the N side of Westonzoyland Road, to the W of the railway line nr. railway station, Bridgwater.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bridgwater, Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 308 368
             (Scale: 1:50000
              , 1997)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Burden, Susannah
      

      

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

 
 Bridgwater anti-tank island - Defences of Bridgwater anti-tank island (earlier 1940, a centre of resistance, and later 1943, a category 'C' nodal point: 1942, a 'centre of resistance again'). Cassini ref. T7358. [Source:  Western Area Defence Scheme, 1941 - PRO WO 166/1251]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - site location plan and additional information.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (VARIANT) - S0007394
         

     (1) - exterior view (DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        [see UORN 12447].

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007394

      

      

        Reference
        
             1996 The Taunton Stop-Line

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/08/15 

            Field Visit, On 2001/09/04 

            Field Visit, During 2000/03 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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