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Shell-proof type 24 pillbox, with brick shuttering.
(Source: Book 1999)
Brick-shuttered type 24 pillbox. The entrance is half-blocked. Bricks are falling away from the exterior. Faces SE. The anti-tank ditch [UORN 8552] runs up to this pillbox, but the last 100 yards has been infilled. The entrance porch/blast wall is in the centre of the rear (N) face. Overgrown. Access, with interior, possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/02/05)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        On E side of Hog Wood.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Hinton Charterhouse, Bath and North East Somerset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            ST 7751 5953
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Pillbox is overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line: Green  - Stop Line - Burnham on Sea to near Melksham (where it joins with the GHQ Line: Blue) and then north to the River Severn at Newnham. This line is also known as the Bristol Outer Line. 
Manned by VIII Corps. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0008551
         

     (1) - exterior view  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008551

      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

             1999 Warwalks: Stop Line Green

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/02/05 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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