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Type 22 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit )
Pillbox, apparently brick-shuttered and rendered, with an exterior anti-blast wall. It is situated now at the rear of a post-war house, and has been decorated with trellis work and plants at the embrasures.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/07/24)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | At the rear of a house next to Brede Lock, off the Winchelsea road out of Rye. |
Area |
Rye, Sussex, East, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 919 199
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project) |
Defence grouping |
Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. Rye nodal point - Defences of Rye Category 'A' nodal point. Cassini ref. R3538. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. Also designated a 'fortress' [Source: 45 Div. Defence Scheme, 1940 - PRO WO 166/536]. |
Photographs |
(4) - exterior and site views (1 DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0009767 |
Reference |
1941/01/12 German map showing defences of Romney Marsh |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, In the period 1994 1998 Field Visit, On 2000/07/24 |