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| HER Number: | MDV44087 |
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| Name: | Blockhouse at Lentney Battery, Wembury |
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Summary
Bottle-shaped concrete blockhouse probably built circa 1914 for the local defence of Lentney Battery.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 492 494 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX44NE |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Wembury |
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| District | South Hams |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | WEMBURY |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses
- Old DCC SMR Ref: SX44NE/4/1
Monument Type(s) and Dates
- BLOCKHOUSE (World War I to Early 20th Century - 1914 AD to 1920 AD)
Full description
Pye, A. R., 1991, Plymouth Defences Survey (Un-published). SDV145577.
Site visit 12th December 1991. Bottle-shaped concrete blockhouse, probably built circa 1914 for the local defence of Lentney Battery. Located circa 25m to north of gun position 1. Partly surrounded to the north by the remains of an unclimbable fence. It has a machine-gun port at its north-west end and rifle loops high up in the side walls. It was originally flat-roofed (perhaps corrugated-iron on rafters), and entered from south via a rock-cut stairwell. Now heavily overgrown; partly cleared by K. Rawlings (December 1991). Marked on 1977 Ordnance Survey 1:2500 plan (SX4949).
Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV145577 | Un-published: Pye, A. R.. 1991. Plymouth Defences Survey. Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Survey. Digital + Mixed Archive Material. |
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| SDV350786 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2013. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #92064 ] |
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Associated Monuments
| MDV39300 | Related to: Lentney battery, Wembury (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 31 2023 10:33AM |
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