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Type 24 pillbox, closely surrounded by shrubbery and barbed wire. Lean to shed (derelict) built onto door side. Door faces SE. [Interior access not possible].
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/11)
Pillbox appears to show in oblique air photograph, camouflaged with pitched roof as a cottage.
(Source: Air Photograph 1941/07/24)
Documentary source lists this as a Bren gun pillbox, 2% completed at 11.8.40. Job no. 100. Cassini ref. 145927.
(Source: Document 1940/08/11)
Type 24 concrete-faced pillbox. Heavily overgrown. Small embrasures. Faces river - N. No proper access - at edge of field.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/18)
Hexagonal structure (on top of a square structure) plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1978)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) |
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Location | Some 100m N of Church Farm, N of the track from Church Farm, Worlington to Jude's Ferry, West Row. |
Area |
Worlington, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 69180 74082
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1978)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Fair |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Plant growth (Long Term) Detail: Pillbox overgrown. |
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. |
Photographs |
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Adjacent sites | Site (RS.1/6) nearby. |
DOB site reference: | S0006392 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences 1941/07/24 MSO 31234/18 1940/08/11 Defence Works Progress Reports |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, During 1995/08/11 Field Visit, On 2002/06/18 |