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Type 28a pillbox, brick shuttered.
(Source: Photograph 2002/06/19)
Documentary source for anti-tank gun and Bren gun pillbox. Job no. 71. 15% completed at 11.8.40. Cassini ref. 039057.
(Source: Document 1940/08/11)
Type 28A anti-tank gun emplacement. Brick-shuttered, but most of the brick has now gone. With cut off corners and chamfered roof edge. Large stepped embrasure, and additional chamber and embrasures for infantry weapons. Faces N. Access possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/19)
Rectangular structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1973)
| Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/28A) |
|---|---|
| Location | Set into a bank at the edge of a field, E of the Holmes River, Littleport. |
| Area |
Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England |
| Grid reference |
TL 57265 86822
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1973)
|
| Period | WW2 |
| Condition | Good |
| Materials | Clay Brick, Reinforced Concrete |
| Recorder | Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project) |
| 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. Littleport nodal point - Defences of Littleport nodal point (Cambridge Area Operation Instruction no.17, 16.12.41 - PRO WO 166/1193). GHQ Line (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough) - Section running from the Essex / Cambridgeshire border to the Lincolnshire border. |
| Photographs |
(2) - external views |
| DOB site reference: | S0002743 |
| Original Reference | 8095 |
| Reference |
1940/08/11 Defence Works Progress Reports |
| Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2002/06/19 |
