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Pillbox; no specification.
(Source: Book 1977)
Type 24 variant pillbox, fitted with 5 semi-circular gun mountings with 3 x rectangular cast embrasures; a double Y-shaped blast wall with covered guarded entrance (2-way entrance). Wood-shuttered interior and exterior. Field of fire S towards Folkestone and covering junction of roads on approach to Hawkinge airfield.
with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Grove Farm, Crete Road East - NW of Folkestone, near the present site of the Channel Tunnel entrance. |
Area |
Folkestone, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TR 198 384
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
Kent coast defences - Defences of the Kent coastal crust and immediate hinterland. Folkestone nodal point - Defences of Folkestone nodal point. [Source: '12 Corps Plan to Defeat Invasion', 16 May 1941 - PRO WO 166/344]. |
Photographs |
(2) - interior and exterior views (1 DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0008207 |
Reference |
1977 A Handbook of Kent's Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1999/06/03 |