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Large complex of trench and mound anti-troop carrying aircraft obstacles dug in low lying marshland to the N, E, and S of Holmhill Farm. Infilled by 1951.
(Source: Air Photograph )
Type of site | ANTI LANDING TRENCH |
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Location | Felixstowe Marshes, Old Felixstowe, Felixstowe. |
Area |
Felixstowe, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TM 3226 3763
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Earthwork |
Recorder | Thomas, Roger J.C. (English Heritage (York Office)) |
Defence grouping |
Suffolk coast defences - Defences of the Suffolk coastline and immediate hinterland. Felixstowe nodal point - Defences of Felixstowe category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M7552. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
DOB site reference: | S0006082 |
Reference |
1945/10/16 Aerial photographs - Bawdsey area (3) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Infill, Before 1951 |