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Pillbox.
(Source: Book 1977)
Type 22 pillbox. No. 64 [?].
(Source: Field Visit 1997)
Type 22 pillbox of variant form, with guarded entrance [blast wall may have been removed]; bolts fitted below embrasures for vertical wood shelf supports; wood shuttered interior and exterior. Situated on N side of canal with field of fire S across Canal. Identification no. 64 [assumed]. Cracks to structure inside. 5 x medium embrasures and 1 x small entrance embrasure. Thicker wall section on W side.
with PLAN drawn on form.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | At Bridge Farm, Warehorne on Royal Military Canal. |
Area |
Warehorne, Kent, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 994 321
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Deere, Peter (Pillbox Study Group) |
Defence grouping |
South East Command: Stop Line (Oare to Warehorne) - This stop line (known as Grid Line LG - LH - LI - WA) ran from Oare to Charing to Ashford to Warehorne. There were forward defences and roadblocks in the section from Oare to Charing, but, from Charing to Warehorne, pillboxes sited in depth and camouflaged. [Source: Operation Instruction No. 20 dated 18.2.41 in War Diary of 6 Btn. Cheshire Regt. (PRO WO 166/4195]. South East Command: Stop Line (Romney Marsh) - Stop Line from Rye (East Sussex) to Sandgate E of Hythe (Kent), following the line of the Royal Military Canal. |
Photographs |
(1) - exterior view (DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0008259 |
Reference |
1977 A Handbook of Kent's Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 1997 Field Visit, On 1999/06/03 |