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Pillbox [no further description given], site located on map at Cambridge University Library.
(Source: Map 1997/01/15)

Type of site PILLBOX
Location Behind houses on Broom Hill, north of Colchester Cemetery, Colchester
Area Colchester, Essex, England
Grid reference TM 00167 23900 (Scale: 1:2500 , 1953)
Period WW2
Condition Unknown
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].
DOB site reference: S0000415
Reference 1996 Anti-invasion defences of WWII
1998/06 World War Two Defences in Essex, Interim Report
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941


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