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Brick built pillbox with concrete roof. Interior brick anti-ricochet wall. Embrasures constructed with bricks. Corrugated iron roof to help disguise structure as a farm building. Described as a 'block house' on 1940 plan [sketch map]. A hand written assessment of the Bransford Bridge defences by a Platoon Commander Ashley Break, with above sketch map (copy DIGITISED) dated 20 December 1940 are held by the Worcester and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association at Norton Barracks.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/03/16)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        To the E of the garden wall to Bransford House, Bransford.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Bransford, Worcestershire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SO 8057 5311
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Wilks, Mick (Hereford and Worcester Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Western Command Stop Line No 28 - Line of the River Teme, from its junction with the River Severn below Worcester to Ludlow. 

 
 Bransford centre of resistance - Defences of Bransford centre of resistance  [ref: Worcester Sub-Area Operation Instruction No.3 Map 'A']. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - map and sketch plan of area (1 DIGITISED)

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX - S0009113
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0009113

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Hereford and Worcester SMR (ref: HWCM 25006)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
              HG records held at Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regimental Association

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1997/03/16 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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