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Smaller type 27 pillbox. External yellow brick shuttering disintegrating. One piece steel plates surround embrasures. MG mount on square pillar on round column. Square vents. Entrance faces W.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/06/21)
Octagonal pillbox, facing E. Creep-through entrance.
(Source: Field Visit 1966)
Type 27 pillbox. Brick shuttering largely in place. No ready access, but can be viewed across water channel.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/12)
Pillbox with 1ft 3ins walls. Serial no. S. 105. Cassini ref. 316600.
(Source: Document 1941/11/14)
Octagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1966)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) |
|---|---|
| Location | In Sudbury Meadows, on the W bank and on a bend of the River Stour, some 400m NNW of 'Mill Hotel', Sudbury.
|
| Area |
Sudbury, Suffolk, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 86679 41604
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1966)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete, Steel |
| Threats |
Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) Detail: Remaining brick shuttering threatened by further weathering. |
| 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. Sudbury nodal point - Defences of Sudbury category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M3259. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
| Photographs |
(1) - site view. |
| Adjacent sites | Sites (RS.8/20) 400m to NNE and (RS.8/22) 450m to S. |
| DOB site reference: | S0006434 |
| Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences 1941/11/14 Suffolk Sub Area Defence Scheme |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/06/21 Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 Field Visit, In the period 1995 2000 |
