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Hexagonal type 24 pillbox, made of breeze blocks, adjacent to S end of railway bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/08/01)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1972)
Pillbox structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Bren emplacement. S.34.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type 24 pillbox close to, and commanding, railway bridge. Hidden at foot of slope, beneath trees and bushes. Made of concrete blocks. Small stepped embrasures. No rear embrasures as rising bank behind. Long concrete-lined entry way. Interior access possible. An anti-tank ditch probably ran from this pillbox at the foot of the slope parallel with the river [see UORN 16344].
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/14)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        SW of Weycroft, at foot of steep bank, beside railway bridge over River Axe.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Axminster, Devon, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 30470 99892
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1972)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Breeze Block, 
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Flooding (Long Term) 
Detail: Site floods when River Axe overflows.

            Type: Vandalism (Medium Term) 
Detail: Pillbox has graffiti daubs.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Hayne, D. (Axminster Historical Society)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Southern Command: Taunton Stop Line - Stop line running N - S through Somerset and South Devon - from Highbridge to Seaton via Taunton. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (2) - photographs.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0001220
         

     (2) - xeroxes on attached sheets.  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001220

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Devon SMR (ref: SY39NW/76)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton

             1947/04/11 CPE/UK/1974 (frs.1423-1424)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/12 

            Field Visit, On 1996/08/01 

            Field Visit, On 1996/08/01 

            Field Visit, On 2003/01/14 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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