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Monument details
| HER Number: | MWX51427 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Second World War pillbox |
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Summary
A Second World War type 22 pillbox is visible as a building on aerial photographs, and remains extant on aerial photographs taken in 2007. The pill box has a very thick detached blast wall and is located on Dover Hill. This site has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey NMP (Component 2).
| Grid Reference: | TR 2404 3774 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR23NW |
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| Parish: | FOLKESTONE, SHEPWAY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) (Modern - 1901 AD to 2000 AD)
| Protected Status: | Selected Heritage Inventory for Natural England: Second World War type 22 pillbox and anti-tank ditch, Dover Hill |
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Full description
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Type 22 pillbox, with very thick detached blast wall (27ins of concrete plus 13.5ins of brick) to rear. 9ft 6ins walls. Corrugated iron spans the gap between the pillbox and the blast wall and earth has been added over this. Small embrasures, widely splayed to the outside.
Type 22 pillbox of variant form, with guarded covered concrete entrance; brick straight blast wall. Vertical wood inserts for shelves fitted under each embrasure. 4 x main embrasures blocked by brickwork. Entrance rifle embrasure blocked by later construction. Field of fire S towards Folkestone. With PLAN drawn on form.
[Recorder Farthing gives NGR - TR 239378 which may be to this site, or it is possible that Farthing's site is a new one]. Crete Road East, Dover. (1)
A Second World War type 22 pillbox is visible as a building on aerial photographs, and remains extant on aerial photographs taken in 2007. The site is centred on TR 2404 3774. This site has been mapped from aerial photographs as part of the South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey NMP (Component 2) (2).
The pillbox still has its Turnbull Mountings in the loopholes which were designed to hold a machine gun (3)
<1> Council for British Archaeology, 2002/6, Defence of Kent database (Digital archive). SWX23603.
<2> RAF, 1945, NMR RAF/106G/UK/541 3007-3008 24-JUL-1945 (Photograph). SWX23828.
<3> John Guy, Verbal Communication (Verbal communication). SKE15418.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Digital archive: Council for British Archaeology. 2002/6. Defence of Kent database. |
| <2> | Photograph: RAF. 1945. NMR RAF/106G/UK/541 3007-3008 24-JUL-1945. |
| <3> | Verbal communication: John Guy. Verbal Communication. |
