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Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 map.
(Source: Map 1969)
Heavily overgrown hexagonal pillbox in corner of field. It is so overgrown exact type cannot be made out. Can be approached by walkway on Chappel Millennium Green. Faces river - NE.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/14)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX
      

      

        Location
        In corner of field E of the railway viaduct and S of the River Colne.


      

      

        Area
        
 
 Wakes Colne, Essex, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 89771 28320
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1969)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is heavily overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

        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.  

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX - S0015690
         

     (1) - external view (photocopy)  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0015690

      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 2002/06/14 

            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, By 2001 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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