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A brick skinned Vickers machine gun emplacement, with concrete roof. The site is set off the path on a slope, adjacent to the Basingstoke Canal.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/02/15)
Brick-shuttered pillbox - faces SE.
(Source: Field Visit 1986/09/02)
Pillbox - Vickers MMG.
(Source: SMR 2003/09/05)
A large, square brick-shuttered medium machine gun emplacement. Heavily overgrown. Forward-facing two corners are 'cut-off'. Non-attached exterior blast wall on SW side, with three steps down to entrance. Faces away from the canal - NW.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/08/27)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/11/27)


      

        Type of site
        VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT
      

      

        Location
        Above the N bank of the Basingstoke Canal W of Chequers Bridge.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Crookham Village, Hampshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SU 7878 5156
             (Scale: 1:10000
              )
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Corrugated Iron, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Immediate) 
Detail: The site is very overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Potts. K.J.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Aldershot Command: Fleet / Farnham stop line - Short length of stop line (a switch line), part of the perimeter defences of Aldershot, running S from the Fleet area via Pilcot and Crookham to join the GHQ Line NW ofr Farnham [Source: Aldershot Command memorandum CRAC No.4 4/2997/55 (G), 17 July 1940 - TNA: PRO WO 199/55) 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of VICKERS MACHINE GUN EMPLACEMENT - S0008618
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0008618

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Hampshire SMR (ref: SU75SE 17)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1945/11/27 106G/UK/1036 (fr.4088)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1986/09/02 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/02/15 

            Field Visit, On 2003/08/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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