'Stopline' - A281 Shalford Road, Shalford, Surrey, GU 4 8BU
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N 51° 13.120 W 000° 34.127
30U E 669783 N 5676950
Remnants of a WWII GHQ 'stopline' roadblock alongside the Shalford Road, immediately south of the Seahorse Public House.
Waymark Code: WMPFMM
Location: South East England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 08/24/2015
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From wiki:
On 27 May 1940 a Home Defence Executive was formed under General Sir Edmund Ironside, Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces, to organise the defence of Britain. At first defence arrangements were largely static and focused on the coastline (the coastal crust) and, in a classic example of defence in depth, on a series of inland anti-tank 'stop' lines. The stop lines were designated Command, Corp and Divisional according to their status. The longest and most heavily fortified was the General Headquarters anti-tank line, GHQ Line, which ran across southern England, wrapped around London and then ran north to Yorkshire. It was intended to protect the capital and the industrial heartland of England.
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