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Type 28A pillbox, modified. Entrance (covered) faces W. Large embrasure blocked leaving 2 small embrasures in lieu.
(Source: Field Visit 1996/05/03)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
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Location | Immediately NW of bridge over old railway line and former railway station on road from A1141 main road past Cockfield Hall; N of the Hall. |
Area |
Cockfield, Suffolk, England |
Grid reference |
TL 9042 5455
(Scale: 1:25000
, 1987)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | 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 type 28A (DIGITISED). |
Photographs |
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Adjacent sites | Sites (RS.7/8) 1100m to NNW and (RS.7/11) 500m to S. |
DOB site reference: | S0006441 |
Reference |
1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 1996/05/03 |