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Some 18 x anti-tank cylinders lying in the river bed and against the banks. [They look as if they have been removed post-war from their original location - perhaps from a roadblock site in Sudbury - and used as reinforcement for the banks of the river].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/06/15)
Type of site | CYLINDER |
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Location | On the banks and in the bed of a side stream of the River Stour. |
Area |
Sudbury, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 8685 4193
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1999)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project) |
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 |
(2) - site views (DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0012081 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2000/06/15 |