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Type 24 pillbox, closely surrounded by shrubbery and barbed wire. Lean to shed (derelict) built onto door side. Door faces SE. [Interior access not possible].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/11)
Pillbox appears to show in oblique air photograph, camouflaged with pitched roof as a cottage.
(Source: Air Photograph 1941/07/24)
Documentary source lists this as a Bren gun pillbox, 2% completed at 11.8.40. Job no. 100. Cassini ref. 145927.
(Source: Document 1940/08/11)
Type 24 concrete-faced pillbox. Heavily overgrown. Small embrasures. Faces river - N. No proper access - at edge of field.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/18)
Hexagonal structure (on top of a square structure) plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1978)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Some 100m N of Church Farm, N of the track from Church Farm, Worlington to Jude's Ferry, West Row.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Worlington, Suffolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 69180 74082
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1978)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Pillbox overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Silverlock, R.A.
      

      

        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
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0006392
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Site (RS.1/6) nearby.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006392

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1941/07/24 MSO 31234/18

             1940/08/11 Defence Works Progress Reports

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, During 1995/08/11 

            Field Visit, On 2002/06/18 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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