Site of Second World War Pillbox, East of A130, East Hanningfield (EHER 20193)

Second World War Pillbox now destroyed. It was a type FW3/24 pillbox.

In a field, 100 yards to the E of the A130, is a thick-walled (3’ 6"), Type FW3/24 pillbox. It is built of concrete and measures 16’ 6" wide x 17’ 3" front to back. There is a full-height entrance in its S side. Inside, the original Y-shaped central pillar has gone; the walls can be seen to have been originally shuttered in corrugated iron sheeting. Typically of the thick-walled, shell-proof, Type FW3/24’s in the area, there are small loopholes in the front five walls and larger, 12" x 10", loopholes each side of the entrance. <1> One photo 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 24 thick walled pillbox. Type 24 shell-proof pillbox. LOCATION: N of Hanningfield cross roads <5> <6> Information from NRHE record 1429514 Type 22 brick-shuttered pillbox, with central entrance in rear wall which has no embrasures. LOCATION: Near Hanningfield cross roads. <5> <6> Note the Defence of Britain has now been updated to suggest pillbox S0015490 does not exist and is likely a duplicate of this record. The update states: Location is on the wrong side of the AT ditch. It seems likely this site is mislocated duplicate of one of the sites nearby. Status updated.