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Type 22 pillbox, shell-proof.
(Source: Book 1999)
Type 22 pillbox. Partly dug into canal bank. Interior floods after rain, but generally intact.
[with plan drawn on form].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/04/06)
Type 22 pillbox on N bank of canal, with field of fire S across canal towards Seend Cleeve. Wood-shuttered, with concrete blast wall. Earth on roof [camouflage].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/08/26)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | N of Kennet and Avon Canal, Seend Bottom. |
Area |
Seend, Wiltshire, England |
Grid reference |
ST 927 615
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1993)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete, Wood |
Recorder | Cole, Chris |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line: Blue - Section of GHQ Stop Line running from near Melksham to Reading. |
Photographs |
(2) - external view (slide and print) (1 DIGITISED). |
Adjacent sites | Type 22 pillboxes to E (ST 931614) and W (ST 922615). |
DOB site reference: | S0008698 |
Reference |
1999 Ironside's Line |
Event |
Field Visit, On 2000/04/06 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2000/08/26 |