Monument record MDO42714 - Possible Second World War railblock on the rail crossing at Parkstone Bay, Poole

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Summary

The Pillbox Study Group list an possibleSecond World War rail block on the Weymouth to London Waterloo railway line on the east side of the rail crossing between Parkstone Bay and the Boating Lake, Parkstone. The block is inferred from RAF vertical aerial photographs dated January 1947, but is associated with a short row of concrete anti-tank blocks to the north (MDO29286).

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The railblock has been removed.


Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5038 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16791.

Thompson, S, 2020, Pillbox Study Group: Defence of Britain Project sites not in the Dorset Historic Environment Record, e41630 (Unpublished document). SDO16685.

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  • --- Unpublished document: Thompson, S. 2020. Pillbox Study Group: Defence of Britain Project sites not in the Dorset Historic Environment Record. e41630.
  • --- Aerial Photograph: Royal Air Force. 17-JAN-1947. RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5038.

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Grid reference SZ 0263 9074 (point)
Map sheet SZ09SW
Unitary Authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

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Record last edited

Oct 8 2020 4:02PM

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