Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) at Barcombe Mills [Find others in East Sussex]

Serial numbers/identifiers

DESPro: 1980

Defence of Britain Project: 709

East Sussex HER: MES7691

Wartime Serial/Post No.: A251

Location

Cassini Grid: wQ 871 337

National Grid: TQ 43402 14787

Access

Public access

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Defence hierarchy

DESPro2368: GHQ LINE

DESPro1980: Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof)

No child defences have been identified

2 features recorded as being in Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33 (Max 2 displayed)
DESPro	Location	Feature	Cassini Grid	Age	Status
1980	Barcombe Mills	Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) [A251]	wQ 871 337	1940?
1981	Barcombe Mills	Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) [A250]	wQ 872 337	1940?

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Incident log for Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33
Date	Time	Grid	Source	Incident
No incidents have been logged for this grid square.

Cassini Grid Square wQ 87 33
Reproduced from the 1940 Ordnance Survey map
with the kind permission of the Ordnance Survey

Image of Grid Square wQ 87 33 and surrounding area

Evidence

Historian's comments Data witheld.
	Surviving Evidence (post-1945)
Standing beside a public footpath, this Type 24 is dominated by close tree growth. The entrance was bricked up by the Environment Agency in 2007 along with that of [DESPro1981].

Historian's comments

Data witheld.

Surviving Evidence (post-1945)

Standing beside a public footpath, this Type 24 is dominated by close tree growth. The entrance was bricked up by the Environment Agency in 2007 along with that of [DESPro1981].

Photograph of Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof)

Photo ID: DSCF8507
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: North-west
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF8504
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: South
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF5299
Date: 02/11/2007
Camera facing: West
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Entrance boarded up prior to being bricked up.

Photo ID: DSCF8506
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: South
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: 'A251' painted on baffle wall in entrance.

Photo ID: DSCF5359
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: N/A
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF3631
Date: 27/04/2008
Camera facing: West
Photographer: Peter Hibbs
Notes: Entrance bricked up.

Photo ID: DSCF8508
Date: 29/10/2006
Camera facing: N/A
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Photo ID: DSCF3667
Date: 27/04/2008
Camera facing: North-west
Photographer: Peter Hibbs

Hibbs, Peter DESPro1980: Pillbox Type 24 (Shell-proof) at Barcombe Mills (2010) Available at: http://www.pillbox.org.uk/concrete_evidence/detail.asp?ID=1980 Accessed: 06 September 2010