Building record TQ 92 NE 127 - PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)

On Royal Military Canal, by Appledore Bridge. Type 22 pillbox. No. 59. Concrete faced.

[Another source - Osborne - for this pillbox gives NGR - TQ 957292].

Type 22 pillbox. No. 59. Concrete faced.

[Another source - Osborne - for this pillbox gives NGR - TQ 957292].

Type 22 pillbox of variant form, with guarded entrance, no roof, and straight blast wall (brick). Bolts fitted below embrasures for vertical wood shelf supports. Wood-shuttered exterior / interior. Entrance on E side. Situated on mound above level of Canal on its W with field of fire E across Canal. 5 x medium embrasures and 1 x small entrance embrasure. Graffiti inside. With PLAN drawn on form.

Type 24 [sic] pillbox, concrete-faced. It has an exterior blast wall protecting doorway. Hexagonal pillbox covering the Royal Military Canal at Appledore. On Royal Military Canal, by Appledore Bridge. (1)

Additional sources (2)

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 2002, Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE32029.

<2> Wills, Henry, Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences (Bibliographic reference). SKE13148.