World War 2 sea defences Pillbox or Coastal Artillery Searchlight Emplacement for the Taunton Stop Line Seaton Devon England UK GB Europe
Seaton is a seaside town, fishing harbour and civil parish in East Devon on the south coast of England. It faces onto Lyme Bay and is on the Dorset and East Devon Coast Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The Taunton Stop Line was built in 1940, following the fall of France, as part of a series of linear anti-invasion defences planned to stop a German advance should they land on the south coast. The purpose of the Taunton Stop Line was to delay advance from the south-west. It ran across the narrowest part of the south-west peninsula from Highbridge on the Bristol Channel in the north to Axmouth on the south Devon coast. Stop Lines utilised natural obstacles such as rivers or artificial barriers such as canals and railway lines as the primary anti-tank obstacle. The Devon section of this Line principally used the River Axe for this purpose, but also used the embankments of the Southern Railway mainline. The primary anti-tank obstacle was enhanced by defensive structures including anti-tank ditches, concrete anti-tank cubes and posts, road and rail blocks, anti-tank gun emplacements, pillboxes, infantry trenches and barbed wire
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Location: Seaton Devon uk
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