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This is probably a type 26 pillbox overlooking the River Severn. [Recorder unable to gain entrance owing to brambles, etc]. Above the entrance incised in the concrete are the words 'GO TO IT' [see photograph].
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/18)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26)
      

      

        Location
        200-250 yards along the railway line SW of Woolaston level crossing (ST 603992), some 10-15 yards in from the railway on the SE side of the line facing the River Severn - on the lip of a small disused quarry.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 599 989
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1986)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Subsidence (Medium Term) 
Detail: Possibility of subsidence as on the lip of an old quarry.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Dennett, David
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Gloucestershire coast defences - Defences of the Severn estuary and the immediate Gloucestershire hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - site location plan.

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) - S0008355
         

     (3) - exterior views and detail (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Other pillboxes of similar type at ST 598986 (DD3) and ST 603991 (DD4).

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008355

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1999/04/18 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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