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Type 22 pillbox. Faces SW. Large vertical crack across entire pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/04)
Standard type 22 pillbox. Internal brick shuttering and brick anti-ricochet wall. Entrance faces N. Structure cracked.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/02/08)
Type 22 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/02/14)
Small type 22 pillbox, half covered in thick ivy. Unprotected entrance with no rifle embrasure adjacent. Appears to have an internal blast wall. Embrasures are smaller than those on the neighbouring pillbox to the E, which has letter-box shaped embrasures.
(Source: Field Visit 2001/08/27)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | At NW corner of Stowlangtoft Spinney, on opposite side of road, NW corner of the junction of the A1088 road and the Pakenham-Stowlangtoft road - 700m W of Stowlangtoft Church.
[with site location map on SRF]. |
Area |
Stowlangtoft, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 9518 6800
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Bad |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Silverlock, R.A. |
Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: River Orwell - River Gt. Ouse Stop Line - Eastern Command line running from mouth of the River Orwell, via Ipswich, the River Gipping, Haughley, Tostock and the Little Ouse to Euston. Then via the Little Ouse to the Great Ouse. |
Photographs |
(4) - exterior views - (2 by Sue Burden) - (1) DIGITISED. |
Adjacent sites | Pillbox (RS.4/15) 850m to N; (RS.4/20) 250m to E; (RS.4/18) 600m to S. |
DOB site reference: | S0006199 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1992/02/14 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/02/08 Field Visit, During 1995/04 Field Visit, On 2001/08/27 |