Stuck in the bunker Traditional Cache
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Nice easy cache and dash along the busy B1183. Owing to the lack of contours, you'll probably see the location from a long way out.
To avoid being muggled, park left 100 yards or so away along the lane.
This section of road is known as the 7 mile straight, and it's common for motorists to speed along. DON'T BE TEMPTED. Lincolnshire police set up regular traps to catch those who disobey the speed limits.
Following Hitlers rampage through Europe in the early years of WW2, the government quickly came to realise the threat of invasion and set up a whole series of defenses and fortifications along the coast and inland, the latter known as stop lines.
The threat was made more real following the evacuation of Dunkirk on 4 June 1940.
Defensive lines and islands were constructed and involved barbed wire, obstructions, earthworks, gun emplacements,bunkers and many others.
Field Marshal Ironside issued an order on 23 May 1940 for the construction of some 18 000 fortifications.
Known as "Pillboxes" there were 7 types of these "off the shelf structures."
The bunker here is the Type 23, designed for 4 men and with the option of a light AA gun mounting. It is a concrete structure, 18 feet by 6 feet with an anti richochet wall.
It forms part of the Witham defensive line, running from the Boston coast, via Lincoln to the General Headquarters Line.
A type 26 bunker exists a few miles south at Cowbridge.
Together they were designed to harass and slow down any invaders.
For more bunkers, go to Frieston Shore Nature Reserve or Theddlethorpe on the East Lindsey coast.
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