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Anti-tank ditch and other defence works. Categorised 'A' for infill.
(Source: Document 1949)
Type of site | ANTI TANK DITCH |
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Location | Sugar beet factory, Hollow Road, Bury St. Edmunds. |
Area |
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 863 653
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Unknown |
Materials | Earthwork |
Recorder | |
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. Bury St. Edmunds nodal point - Defences of Bury St. Edmunds category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M3082. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
DOB site reference: | S0014299 |
Reference |
1949 Lists of Temporary Defence Works Cases |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |