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Pillbox type 24. Concrete facing with small embrasure in each face. Brick anti-ricochet wall. Chamfered angle between top of walls and roof. Entrance faces SW.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/15)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Some 300m E of Lark Bank Road, ESE of Lark Grange cottages on tarmac farm road to a farm building. |
Area |
Mildenhall, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 6190 8170
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Silverlock, R.A. |
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. |
Attached Sheets | (1) - site location plan. |
Photographs |
(3) - 2 exterior, 1 interior (DIGITISED) views. |
DOB site reference: | S0006282 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/08/15 |