Another piibox in Monkton Farleigh

Bit of an oddity this one.It's not got a data base reference and yet there's a photo of it on Google earth.I must admit I lived in Farleigh for 12 years and never spotted it although it's right by the side of the road.It was luck I spotted it today as I was in the vicinity visiting friends and wasn't really looking for anything at all,and I reckon in the summer it would be invisible from the road.It must have been one for guarding the Central Ammunition Dump just up the road.

Position is

51 23 39 15 north
02 17 02 74 west

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2 the view from the above embrasure

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4 horribly low door

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6the embrasures inside seem to have been built up with brick at a later date

7 what weapon would have hung on this?

8The gun port by the door also built up with brick

9 reinforcing showing through in the ceiling also a glimpse of the ricochet wall

10The view from the road almost buried in brambles

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Nice one, odd how they can be under your nose and you don't spot them till your walking past one day.

nice find mate I know what you mean about them being hidden in the summer I managed to bag a vickers pb yesterday that I thought had been removed (I photographed it's twin sister last year and it's only about 200 yards away) because during summer the vegitation was so thick it hid it

Very nice find mate.No idea on the mount though

Rather than starting another thread for the sake of four photos I'll bung these on here.A while ago I found a road block at Monkton Farleigh that was a probably a guard post for the ammo dump.Once again the lack of undergrowth produced another block about 30 foot away from the original.

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=19994&highlight=monkton+farleigh

1 you can see the other block in the background


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4Also still buried in the growth were several lumps of concrete like this

this is at

51 23 26 45 north
02 17 05 94 west

There's roadblocks on each of the three (well two but one has 2 ends) roads leading to MF. Also quite a few other pillboxes dotted around the area, some a lot more hidden than others.

Cheers for that Krela, I've got two of the blocks and guessed there must be a third on the road up from link lane up to the rise but I've failed to spot it

I'm not sure it's there any-more myself, I cant remember to be honest!

Nice find,looks pretty clean too.

Nice find on that PB oldscrote. It's been added to the edob. Where was the photograph by the way?