{"id":5407,"date":"2015-03-08T17:16:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T17:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2025-09-29T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:03:03","slug":"severn-estuary-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/severn-estuary-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Estuary Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kevin Briggs from Monmouth, has kindly sent in photographs he took in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Defence Structures are to be found on the western side of the River Severn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type 22 Pillbox @ Magor (1987)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grid: ST 4130-8680<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note the very unusual concrete plinths that protrude above each loophole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Type 24 Pillbox @ Lydney<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

near Chepstow (1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grid: SO 6420-0140<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Type 26 Pillbox @ Lydney (1991)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grid: SO 6320-0170<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prefabricated Type 26 Pillbox<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

@ Beachley, Near Chepstow (1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grid: ST 5480-9030<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cantilever Type Pillbox<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

@ Chapel Farm, Magor (1987)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grid: ST 4430-8520<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Section Post @ Magor (1987)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Grid: ST 8670-4190<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kevin Briggs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kevin Briggs from Monmouth, has kindly sent in photographs he took in the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s. The Defence Structures are to be found on the western side of the River Severn. Type 22 Pillbox @ Magor (1987) Grid: ST 4130-8680 Note the very unusual concrete plinths that protrude above each loophole. Type 24 Pillbox @ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[259,257],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wales","tag-revisited","tag-severn","czr-hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","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=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}