Monument record MWX1349 - Pillbox, Old Railway Goods Yard, Fairmile Road, Christchurch

Type 22 pillbox forming one component of a line of 31 x anti-tank blocks [see MWX1325]. Scheduled monument - pillbox and tank traps to N of Christchurch in former railway yard.

Type 22 pillbox between anti-tank cubes nos 27 and 28 at the NE end of the line. Near the Fairmile Road (B3073) and the railway, W of the River Avon.<1-3>

This pill box forms part of the Christchurch 'anti-tank island'. Constructed from concrete, polygonal in plan and facing east. This pillbox was located west of the railway bridge over the River Avon on the north side of the railway. <4>

The pillbox is visible on an aerial photograph of 1946 and was digitally plotted by the Dorset Stour NMP project <5>.

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 1995, Defence of Britain Project, S0013853 (Digital archive). SWX5.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2003, Defence of Britain Project Database, S0013853 (Machine readable data file). SDO128.

<3> Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Defence of Britain Project Archive DEB01, S0013853 (Excavation archive). SDO17227.

<4> Hodges, M A, 1982, Prepared for Battle - some details of forts and fights in and near Christchurch over the last three millennia. , 35-6 (Monograph). SWX8109.

<5> Royal Air Force, 12-DEC-46, RAF/CPE/UK/1893 RS 4219-20 (Aerial Photograph). SDO15410.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458706 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1427970 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 24 2023 7:33PM