Site of Second World War Pillbox, East Hanningfield crossroads (EHER 20192)

Site of Second World War Pillbox (destroyed). It was a type 28a brick-clad concrete anti-tank gun emplacement.

In a field on the NE side of the A130/Pan Lane crossroads is a rectangular, brick and concrete, artillery pillbox. It measures 28’ 6 wide x 20’ 5 front to back x 4’ 3 thick and faces E by S towards the former course of the anti-tank ditch of the GHQ Line which ran from N to S across the field some 40 yards away. It is a standard Type FW3/28A built to house a 2-pdr anti-tank gun, with a Bren-gun chamber on its S side. The ceiling can be seen to have been originally shuttered in corrugated iron sheeting. The roof has the remains of piles of concrete, dropped there in an attempt to break up the straight outline. <1> Six photos of site. <2> <3> Following a review of available aerial photographs on Google Earth the pillbox has been destroyed sometime between 2011 and 2017 <4> Information from NRHE Type 28a brick clad concrete anti tank gun emplacement. Two chambers, the larger of which has the main embrasure for the field gun the entrance and a further small embrasure. Second chamber has two small embrasures. Type 28a anti-tank gun emplacement. LOCATION: N of Hanningfield cross roads. <5> <6>