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Pillbox type 27, slightly modified. Brick anti-ricochet walls. Covered low entrance under one embrasure, which led to trenches that ran in three directions to patches of woodland [to provide concealed access to the pillbox which lies in open heathland?]. Polygon side approx 3m long. Entrance faces S.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/12)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) |
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Location | Approx. centre of Cavenham Heath (Cavenham National Nature Reserve), S of the Icklingham - Cavenham road, off unmade track. |
Area |
Cavenham, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 756 725
(Scale: 1:25000
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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) - plan of pillbox type 27 (DIGITISED). |
Photographs |
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Adjacent sites | Site (RS.1/31) nearby. Tuddenham Airfield nearby. |
DOB site reference: | S0006426 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1995/08/12 |