A Second World War pillbox (Type 22 or 24) survives to the west of Sarre Ferry Cottage. It may have been associated with the roadblock/prepared demolition at Bolingbroke Bridge, to the north-east, but we cannot yet be sure. Alternatively (since it may face west or south-west) it may have been part of the defences of the Sarre Second World War Nodal Point. This is reported to be a ‘small hexagonal Type 22 pillbox, a variant inasmuch as there are two rifle ports, one each side of the entrance … concrete-faced [with] square, stepped embrasures’. And to stand ‘on small mound with thin concrete base partly exposed … overgrown on one side’.
Owner : Private
Publicly accessible : No
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Condition : good
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This structure was recorded from 1940s aerial photographs [2] as part of Phase 1 of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

John Guy, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). SKE15383.

<1> John Guy, CBA Defence of Britain Project (Digital archive). Ske15383.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.

<4> English Heritage, 2004, Defence areas: a national study of Second World War anti-invasion landscapes in England (Unpublished document). SKE17661.