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Line of anti-tank ditch, surviving partly as a drain immediately W of the railway and then visible as a soil mark plotted from aerial photographs (TL 57298707 - TL 56658750). Its course W of Camel Road is uncertain.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/06/07)
Anti-tank ditch and spoil. Categorised 'A' for removal, 1951. At allotment, no.9, Station Road, Littleport, Isle of Ely.
(Source: Document 1951)


      

        Type of site
        ANTI TANK DITCH
      

      

        Location
        Running in front of NE area of Littleport built up area, from the railway line to Camel Road.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 5630 8760
            

            TL 5754 8685
            

            TL 5732 8704
            

            TL 5729 8707
            

            TL 5665 8750
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Infilled

      

      

        Materials
        
            Earthwork
        
      

      

        Recorder
         (Defence of Britain 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.  

 
 GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of ANTI TANK DITCH - S0016156
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0016156

      

      

        Reference
        
             1951 [Lists of Temporary Defence Works for Categorisation for Removal]

             1946/06/07 106G/UK/1557 (fr 4047)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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