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Type 23 pillbox which originally stood alongside searchlight battery site [destroyed]. It was manned by regular troops during the week and Home Guard at weekends.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/10)
Rectangular pillbox built into side of sunken lane.
Description of owner of land,
"There is no basement below the window [sic] level, although there could have been given the height of the structure above the lane. There are 3 windows [embrasures], looking up the lane, down it and across it. There is also a firing step at the entrance back into the garden. The entrance is open, a walk-in gap in the back wall. This leads into an L-shaped space, the short leg of which is roofed and has a low opening on the right, a crouch-down rather than a crawl-in, into the space which faces across and up the lane".
(Source: Field Visit 1997/03)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/23) |
|---|---|
| Location | In Spout Lane, near Little Cornard. |
| Area |
Little Cornard, Suffolk, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 9005 3726
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1980)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
| Recorder | Burden, Susannah |
| 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. |
| Attached Sheets | (1) - site location plan. |
| Photographs |
(2) - exterior views. |
| DOB site reference: | S0006054 |
| Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
| Event |
Field Visit, During 1997/03 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 1998/10 |
