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Type 27 pillbox, thick-walled. External yellow brick shuttering, disintegrating and now 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)
Type 27 pillbox. Stripped of upper brick shuttering. Faces river - E. Overgrown by summer vegetation. Access exterior and interior.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/12)
Octagonal pillbox plotted from aerial photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1945/04/17)
Octagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1964)
Pillbox with 3ft 6ins walls. Serial no. S. 109. Cassini ref. 311611.
(Source: Document 1941/11/14)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27)
      

      

        Location
        Near Sudbury Hall, on the W bank of the River Stour, some 400m N of Brundon Mill.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Borley, Essex, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 86308 42672
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1964)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Deterioration (Medium Term) 
Detail: Remaining brick shuttering threatened by further weathering.

        		
      

      

        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 FW3/27) - S0006438
         

       		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Sites (RS.8/35) 400m to NW and (RS.8/18) 400m to S.

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0006438

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1941/11/14 Suffolk Sub Area Defence Scheme

             1945/04/17 106G/LA/227 (fr 2095)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1996/06/21 

            Field Visit, On 2002/06/12 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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