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| HHER Number: | 1793 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | PILLBOX AND ASSOCIATED ANTI-TANK OBSTACLES, THE RIDGEWAY, NORTHAW |
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Summary - not yet available
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- TANK TRAP (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
Hexagonal brick and concrete pillbox (Type FW3/24 <1>) on immediate N side of The Ridgeway. There is a short double line of eight concrete anti-tank cubes (3'6" type <1>) some 75m to the E on the opposite side of the road. In the woods, 100m to the W, is a 10' square brick and concrete auxiliary shelter, possibly a command post, half buried in the ground. It has no loopholes and has a 6' door opening on its S corner <2>.
Remains as described above, November 2001 <3>.
<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p30-1, 41 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.
<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 11.2.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.
<3> Jim Apps, site visit, 25.11.2001 (Verbal communication). SHT5651.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p30-1, 41. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 11.2.1992. |
| <3> | Verbal communication: Jim Apps, site visit. 25.11.2001. |
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