{"id":5376,"date":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T10:29:21","slug":"a-preserved-type-22-pillbox-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/a-preserved-type-22-pillbox-in-surrey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Preserved Type 22 Pillbox in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Mill at Elstead on the River Wey, GHQ Line B, Surrey.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Beside the River Wey at the Mill in Elstead is an excellent preserved FW3\/22 pillbox, it can be found close to the main entrance and beer garden of the picturesque restaurant and public house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although the brick shuttered box is topped with a large growth of ivy the wartime defence is still in excellent condition and is accessible for visitors to the pub!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Internally the pillbox is extremely clean, original and un vandalised, it also still features some of its small rectangular concrete loophole tables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A concrete lintel tops the loopholes on five of the walls, the entrance side has two smaller loops one of which is unusually positioned where two walls join.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Another type 22 featured the same roof arrangement, its remains can be seen on this defence which is a the entrance to Beryl Browns kennels on the Shackleford Road near Elstead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Denton<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Copyright Graham G Matthews@PSG2009<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mill at Elstead on the River Wey, GHQ Line B, Surrey. Beside the River Wey at the Mill in Elstead is an excellent preserved FW3\/22 pillbox, it can be found close to the main entrance and beer garden of the picturesque restaurant and public house. Although the brick shuttered box is topped with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[84,198,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-5376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surrey","7":"tag-pillbox","8":"tag-preserved","9":"tag-surrey","10":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376","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=5376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}