Monument record 4072 - Road Block at Richmond Hill

This is a road block comprised of four sets of concrete sockets to take vertical rails, each socket taking two rails making eight rails in total. Roadblocks were usually a combination of moveable and stationary objects, either on or built into roads and bridges, that could be used to stop or divert any enemy vehicles. They often incorporated steel bars, concrete blocks and barbed wire. It is on the deck, off the canal bridge crossing the Macclesfield canal. It is part of the Western Command Stop Line Number 6, which was a line of defences that would hold up enemy forces in the event of an invasion, and allow the armed forces to move around behind the line and concentrate forces on the enemy.