Monument record 4084/1/3 - Pillbox at Willaston/Hooton Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF10)

<1> CBA, 2002, Defence of Britain Project, S0015714 (Digital Archive). SCH4380.

Clay brick and concrete sentry pillbox at Royal Ordnance Factory, Willaston/Hooton

<2> County Historic Environment Record, Site Visit/Watching Brief Observation Report Form, 06.05.04 (Unpublished Document). SCH4357.

Tall heavily overgrown pillbox next to the abandoned railway. Built of brick with a concrete roof and three embrasures made of a single piece of concrete and a wall surrounding the entrance; but otherwise square

<3> AMEC, 2013, NTH Roften Works, Historic Building Record (Client Report). SCH7260.

Standard ROF-type pillbox, 8ft square, brick walls, flat concrete roof with long narrow embrasures in all sides. Nature of the pillboxes suggests they were mainly inteded as guard posts or fire watching posts but would have served as a defensive position in the event of an attack.

<4> 2017, Pillbox Study Group, http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/advanced-pillbox-designs/part-2-o-z/rof-pillbox-variants/ (Web Site). SCH8258.

"The ROF type is a bespoke design only found at Royal Ordnance depots and factories. It is a small square pillbox with distinctive long narrow embrasures in each wall. The door is low and usually covered by a porch with a slightly angled roof. The long narrow embrasure serves well as an observation slit but not as well as a firing port, this suggests the main function of this type was as an observation and guard post with a secondary role of defensive position in the event of an attack. At some ROF sites the narrow embrasure is replaced by a more standard rifle embrasure and at Norton Fitzwarren AA positions have been added to the roof. The walls are about 8ft long but the size of this type varies slightly across the country"