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Type 28 pillbox, which may be modified type 26 with thick walls. Mounting bolts at main embrasure. Only the main embrasure at the front and no internal wall. Doorway faces S. Brick external shuttering; concrete roof and embrasure surrounds.
(Source: Field Visit 1995/08/11)
Documentary source lists this as an anti-tank gun emplacement (job no. 97), 95% completed at 11.8.40, but with a 6pdr. gun pedestal to be fixed. Cassini ref. 132932.
(Source: Document 1940/08/11)
Type 28 anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick shuttered. Faces N towards bridge. Large stepped embrasure, and two small LMG or rifle embrasures facing W and E. Holdfast inside. Roof vent. Some exterior iron fittings [ for camouflage?].
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/18)
Square structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1978)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28)
      

      

        Location
        Near Jude's Ferry Bridge, West Row, some 100m E of 'Sunny Nook' (bungalow) on track Jude's Ferry to Church Farm, Worlington.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Worlington, Suffolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 67779 74572
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1978)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Agricultural requirements (Medium Term) 
Detail: Farmer would 'like to remove' this pillbox.

        		
      

      

        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
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0006440
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28) - S0006440
         

     (1) - exterior view.  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Sites (RS.1/7);  (RS.1/9); and (RS.1/30) nearby.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006440

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1940/08/11 Defence Works Progress Reports

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940/08 

            Field Visit, On 1995/08/11 

            Field Visit, On 2002/06/18 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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