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Type 27 pillbox. External yellow brick shuttering largely gone. No steel plates at embrasures. MG mount on square pillar on round column. Square vents. Entrance faces W.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/06/21)
Good example of type 27, free of vegetation by footpath in open pasture. Large part of the brick shuttering has gone. Some graffiti on exterior walls. Faces river - E.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/12)
Octagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1966)
Pillbox with 3ft 6ins walls. Serial no. S. 105. Cassini ref. 318604.
(Source: Document 1941/11/14)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) |
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Location | In Sudbury Meadows, on the W bank of the River Stour, some 500m SE of Brundon Mill. |
Area |
Sudbury, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 86834 41989
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1966)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
Threats |
Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) Detail: Remaining brick shuttering threatened by further weathering. Type: Vandalism (Immediate) Detail: Some graffiti has been sprayed on the exterior walls. |
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. Sudbury nodal point - Defences of Sudbury category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M3259. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
Photographs |
(2) - views of AA gun mounting (1 DIGITISED). |
Adjacent sites | Sites (RS.8/19) 200m to NNW and (RS.8/21) 400m to SSW. |
DOB site reference: | S0006433 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences 1941/11/14 Suffolk Sub Area Defence Scheme |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/06/21 Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 |