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Type 28 pillbox with chamfered roof edges. There is a single large stepped embrasure, facing E, and now blocked.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Large square pillbox, thick-walled. The blocked-up main embrasure appears big enough to have taken a 6-pdr anti-tank gun. Chamfered corners with airbricks. Small blocked embrasures on sides.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/06/03)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick-shuttered. Main embrasure blocked in. Now part of a garden boundary wall. Faces E towards Ballingdon road bridge.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/12)
6pdr. anti-tank gun emplacement, with gun installed. Serial no. SA 8. Cassini ref. 317594.
(Source: Document 1941/11/14)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) |
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Location | N of Ballingdon road bridge in back garden of house, overlooking river, Sudbury.
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Area |
Sudbury, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 8665 4093
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1970)
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, 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. 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 |
(3) - external views (1 DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0011781 |
Reference |
1941/11/14 Suffolk Sub Area Defence Scheme |
Event |
Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1999/06/03 |