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Line of anti-tank ditch, surviving partly as a drain immediately W of the railway and then visible as a soil mark plotted from aerial photographs (TL 57298707 - TL 56658750). Its course W of Camel Road is uncertain.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/06/07)
Anti-tank ditch and spoil. Categorised 'A' for removal, 1951. At allotment, no.9, Station Road, Littleport, Isle of Ely.
(Source: Document 1951)

Type of site ANTI TANK DITCH
Location Running in front of NE area of Littleport built up area, from the railway line to Camel Road.
Area Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England
Grid reference TL 5630 8760
TL 5754 8685
TL 5732 8704
TL 5729 8707
TL 5665 8750
Period WW2
Condition Infilled
Materials Earthwork
Recorder (Defence of Britain 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.
GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border.
Photographs View of ANTI TANK DITCH - S0016156
DOB site reference: S0016156
Reference 1951 [Lists of Temporary Defence Works for Categorisation for Removal]
1946/06/07 106G/UK/1557 (fr 4047)
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941


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