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Wales
A number of stop lines were built in Wales. Nine formed part of the main Western Command stop line system, as developed in the summer of 1940. Three crossed the Welsh/English border and eleven used major rivers as their backbone. They were intended to protect the North Welsh approaches to Liverpool and the Northwest, and to add depth to the defences covering Birmingham and the industrial Midlands. A further objective was to protect the South Wales coal fields and industrial belt. The threat was from the Republic of Ireland (or Eire as it was then known). The possibility of the Germans using Eire as a stepping stone to Britain greatly worried the British.
Beaches in Wales, although not of the top priority, were defended with concrete obstacles, anti-aircraft poles and wire obstacles. From the records, a total of 27 beaches were supplied with such defences. Nodal points in Wales appear to have been limited, with a total of 30 identified from the general references in the sources used. Geographically they are limited to Flintshire, Denbighshire, Wrexham, Conwy, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
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