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Type 26 pillbox overlooking the River Severn. [Recorder unable to access interior owing to undergrowth]. From what can be seen of the interior, it is dry, clean and sound. The entrance is from the railway embankment by means of a short 5-6ft long block-lined trench.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/04/18)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/26) |
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Location | About 150-170 yards NE of Woolaston level crossing (ST 603992). The rear of the pillbox is parallel with the railway boundary fence. |
Area |
Woolaston, Gloucestershire, England |
Grid reference |
ST 603 991
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1986)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Concrete Block, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Dennett, David |
Defence grouping |
Gloucestershire coast defences - Defences of the Severn estuary and the immediate Gloucestershire hinterland. |
Photographs |
![]() (1) - exterior view DIGITISED). |
Adjacent sites | Other pillboxes on the W shore of the Severn estuary. |
DOB site reference: | S0008360 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1999/04/18 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |