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Spigot mortar base.
(Source: Field Visit )
Spigot mortar pedestal, half-buried in embankment of River Great Ouse.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/19)
Type of site | SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT |
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Location | On W bank of River Great Ouse, Littleport. |
Area |
Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England |
Grid reference |
TL 5764 8755
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Concrete, Steel |
Recorder | Osborne, Mike (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. 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: | S0004699 |
Event |
Construction, After 1941/05 Field Visit, On 2002/06/19 |