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Six-sided pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/08/31)
Type 24 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08)
Pillbox. Cassini ref 659767
(Source: Document 1940/11/27)
Pillbox. Manned by 9th Bn. Royal Fusiliers. Cassini ref. 660767.
(Source: Document 1940/06/20)
Pillbox. Serial no. 86. Cassini ref. 659767.
(Source: Document 1940/10/23)
Concrete-faced type 24 pillbox by the Little Stour. No access as cultivated field around. Badly overgrown. Probably faces E towards site of roadblock [see UORN 16907].
(Source: Field Visit 2004/02/10)
Pillbox plotted from German map.
(Source: Map 1941/06/01)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/05/01)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        By the Little Stour river on its N bank, SW of Wickhambreaux Church.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wickhambreaux, Kent, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TR 2186 5859
             (Scale: 1:10000
              , 1983)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is very overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Bramley, Jon
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0001636
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        TR 212596; TR 227567; TR 224579; TR 223574.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001636

      

      

        Original Reference
        6951
      

      

        Reference
        
             1977 A Handbook of Kent's Defences

             1941/06/01 Sheet (Blatt) 117

             1940/06/20 Defence Instruction No.21

             1940/10/23 Home Defence Instructions No.95

             1946/05/01 106G/UK/1449 (fr.4064)

             1991/05 Some Pillboxes and Stop Lines: Aspects of Defence Preparations in East Kent 1940

             1940/11/27 List of Pillboxes, Defended Houses, and Roadblocks

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1996/08/31 

            Construction, By 1940/06/20 

            Field Visit, During 1995/08 

            Field Visit, On 2004/02/10 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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