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Anti-tank ditch running W-E across Bawdsey Marshes, connecting with exisiting drains. This earthwork does not show on 1941 aerial photographs, so must have been dug at some time between 1942-1944. It was still there in 1952.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/09/23)
Anti-tank ditch, with a lenth of anti-tank scaffolding at the eastern end. The scaffolding had been removed by October 1945, and by 1965 only a faint trace of the ditch remained.
(Source: SMR 2001)
Type of site | ANTI TANK DITCH |
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Location | N of Ferry Road, connecting with loops of drains, Bawdsey Marshes. |
Area |
Bawdsey, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TM 3337 3849
TM 3348 3853 TM 3359 3853 TM 3368 3855 TM 3372 3854 TM 3380 3854 TM 3416 3873 |
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Infilled |
Materials | Earthwork |
Recorder | |
Defence grouping |
Bawdsey radar station defences - Ground defences of Bawdsey radar station (RAF Bawdsey). Suffolk coast defences - Defences of the Suffolk coastline and immediate hinterland. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0016146 |
Associated Identifier | Suffolk SMR (ref: XS19229) |
Reference |
1945/09/23 106G/UK/832 (fr 4082) 1944/04/18 106G/LA/1 (fr 4015) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1942 1944 |