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Pillbox [no further description given], site located on map at Cambridge University Library.
(Source: Map 1997/01/15)
Small type 22 pillbox. Entrance has 'L' shaped blastwall with roof. Internally there is a central pillar.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/03/21)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)
      

      

        Location
        Mersea Road, at entrance to Middlewick Rifle Range, Old Heath, Colchester

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Colchester, Essex, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TM 00513 22984
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1958)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Kerr, Alistair Graham
      

      

        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.  

 
 Colchester nodal point - Defences of Colchester category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M4443. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        Additional SRF by Sue Burden

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (3) - external views  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000414

      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1999/03/21 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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