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Vickers medium machine gun pillbox, thick-walled, externally shuttered with breeze blocks and internally with brick. Concrete blast wall.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/03)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1961)
Vickers emplacement externally faced with breeze blocks near hedgerow of lane. Some blocks are falling away. Detached external blast wall. Concrete gun table. Brick-lined inside. Large embrasure faces W. No access without permission.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/01/14)
Square structure plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1947/04/11)
Vickers emplacement. S.V.4.
(Source: Document 1940)
Type of site | VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | In field at top of slope, SE of Wadbrook. |
Area |
Hawkchurch, Devon, England |
Grid reference |
ST 32589 01499
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1961)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Breeze Block, Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Dangerfield, M.E. (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. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0001315 |
Associated Identifier | Devon SMR (ref: ST30SW/126) |
Reference |
1947/04/11 CPE/UK/1974 (frs.4322-4323) 1940 Taunton Stop Line: record map folios of Major F.B. Goodman R.E., D.C.R.E. Taunton |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940/12 Field Visit, During 1997/03 Field Visit, During 1997/03 Field Visit, During 1997/03 Field Visit, On 2003/01/14 |