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Standard type 22, with thickened walls, and an embrasure in rear blast wall.
Built with wood shuttering.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/02/17)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | East side of Chesterton railway bridge. |
Area |
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England |
Grid reference |
TL 474 602
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1987)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Concrete |
Recorder | Sansom, Mark |
Defence grouping |
Cambridge nodal point - Defences of Cambridge as part of GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire), anti-tank island and nodal point GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border. |
Attached Sheets | (1) - sketch map |
Photographs | (1) - rear external view |
DOB site reference: | S0001958 |
Original Reference | 7285 |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1997/02/17 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |