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Type 22 pillbox, shell-proof.
(Source: Book 1999)
Type 22 pillbox on S bank of canal, with field of fire SW and W towards Semington Swing Bridge. Brick-shuttered exterior.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/26)
Small hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1989)
Pillbox structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/06/13)
Pillbox. Ref. 57.
(Source: Document 1940/12)
Hexagonal type 22 pillbox. Concrete-faced. Anti-ricochet wall. Small embrasures in each face, with one rifle port by doorway (on E side). Chamfered roof line. Faces W along canal. Some graffiti. Access possible, and interior.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/02/04)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Near S bank of Kennet and Avon Canal, W of Semington Bridge.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Semington, Wiltshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 89412 60802
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1989)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Vandalism (Medium Term) 
Detail: The pillbox has received some graffiti.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Farthing, Geoff (Pillbox Study Group)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. 

 
 Semington centre of resistance - The defences of Semington on the GHQ Blue Line. After 1940 the defences were developed as a Centre of Resistance (Nodal Point) manned by the 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard. (South Wiltshire Sub Area, 1942 - PRO WO 166/6785). 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) - S0008680
         

     (1) - site view.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 28a emplacements to S (ST 893605) and E (ST 897614).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008680

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

             1940/12 [copy of map of 4th Bn. Wiltshire Home Guard showing defence positions on the Kennet & Avon Canal]

             1945/06/13 106G/UK/377 (fr.4040)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/02/04 

            Field Visit, On 2000/08/26 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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