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Type 28 pillbox with chamfered roof edges. There is a single large stepped embrasure, facing E, and now blocked.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Large square pillbox, thick-walled. The blocked-up main embrasure appears big enough to have taken a 6-pdr anti-tank gun. Chamfered corners with airbricks. Small blocked embrasures on sides.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick-shuttered. Main embrasure blocked in. Now part of a garden boundary wall. Faces E towards Ballingdon road bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/12)
6pdr. anti-tank gun emplacement, with gun installed. Serial no. SA 8. Cassini ref. 317594.
(Source: Document 1941/11/14)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28)
      

      

        Location
        N of Ballingdon road bridge in back garden of house, overlooking river, Sudbury.


      

      

        Area
        
 
 Sudbury, Suffolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 8665 4093
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1970)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Burden, Susannah
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Eastern Command: Corps and Command Stop Lines - One of three Eastern Command Corps stop lines, this one running from the River Colne in Essex via Wakes Colne and Bures, along the River Stour to Sudbury and Long Melford, and thence to Bury St. Edmunds and the River Lark at Mildenhall. Its final stretch (known now as the Command Line) was via Littleport along the line of the River Great Ouse to King's Lynn.  

 
 Sudbury nodal point - Defences of Sudbury category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M3259. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0011781
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0011781
         

     (3) - external views (1 DIGITISED).  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0011781

      

      

        Reference
        
             1941/11/14 Suffolk Sub Area Defence Scheme

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/06/03 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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