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Type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement [pillbox]. Constructed as a low rectangular structure with one large entrance to the rear which is off set to the left. This is possibly six feet across and has had wooden floors. Piercing the front wall is a low, long embrasure. Also in the front wall, but to the left, is a second, smaller embrasure. There is an embrasure set into both the right and left walls. These are set towards the rear of the emplacement. In the rearward facing wall, there is a small square hole, just below the roofing slab; this vent is dog-legged. The two leading corners have been angled; the same applies to the roof except for the rear.
The interior has been altered over the years and it is now used to house machinery.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/03)
Brick-shuttered anti-tank gun emplacement. Because of dumping around it, it is impossible to make out the exact type or the direction of fire. However, the main embrasure is likely to face NW towards Littleport Bridge. Private land: no access.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/19)
Rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1973)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
|---|---|
| Location | At farm buildings to the W of Cross Drove which runs S from the A1101 Mildenhall Road. |
| Area |
Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 58440 86975
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1973)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Fair |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
| Threats |
Type: Dumping (Medium Term) Detail: Much dumping surrounds the anti-tank gun emplacement, and has buried some sides of it. |
| Recorder | Chalk, Russell |
| 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. GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border. |
| Photographs |
(1) - external view |
| Adjacent sites |
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| DOB site reference: | S0001573 |
| Original Reference | 6885 |
| Event |
Field Visit, During 1997/03 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2002/06/19 |
