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Eastern Command type square infantry pillbox with detached loopholed blastwall. Brick-shuttered. Heavily overgrown and with dumping around. Faces N and S along railway line.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/19)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1973)
Type of site | PILLBOX (VARIANT) |
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Location | In corner of field behind houses at junction of Victoria Street and railway embankment, Littleport. |
Area |
Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England |
Grid reference |
TL 57560 86545
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1973)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Dumping (Medium Term) Detail: The pillbox has various dumps of building materials around it. Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: The pillbox is overgrown. |
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. Littleport nodal point - Defences of Littleport nodal point (Cambridge Area Operation Instruction no.17, 16.12.41 - PRO WO 166/1193). GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border. |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0004697 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2002/06/19 |