{"id":5330,"date":"2015-03-08T16:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T12:06:59","slug":"raf-southrop-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/raf-southrop-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Southrop Defences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Relief Landing Ground at NGR: SP175036<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A Farm at the WWII RLG, RAF Southrop, Gloucestershire is defended by a very unusual double Pillbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Double Norcon Variant?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I think this is a transportable Lewis Gun AA emplacement?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Farm House?? I think it’s a Watch Office Early type to look like a farm house. The windows are WW2, concrete window\/door porch. Two re-enforced I beams running through the ceiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Farm House??<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This crest appears on both apexes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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I Beams seen trough the window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Second entrance with a concrete cast hole in the floor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0by Richard Drew<\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.atlantikwall.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Relief Landing Ground at NGR: SP175036 A Farm at the WWII RLG, RAF Southrop, Gloucestershire is defended by a very unusual double Pillbox.   A Double Norcon Variant? I think this is a transportable Lewis Gun AA emplacement?   The Farm House?? I think it’s a Watch Office Early type to look like a farm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1007],"tags":[78,143],"class_list":{"0":"post-5330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gloucestershire","8":"category-norcon","9":"tag-defences","10":"tag-southrop","11":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}