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Two circular weapon pits (TL 6772574784 and TL 6772474792), made with concreted sandbags of which in places at least six tiers are still extant. The weapon pits are some fifteen feet apart, and have trees growing from them today.
(Source: Field Visit 2004/12/23)
Type of site | WEAPON PIT |
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Location | Close to W side of modern road approach on S side of Jude's Ferry Bridge [E side of original bridge approach]. |
Area |
Worlington, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 67724 74788
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Concrete, Earthwork, Sandbags |
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 |
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DOB site reference: | S0016953 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2004/12/23 |