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| CHER Number: | MCB28732 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War II pillbox, Oakington Airfield |
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Summary - not yet available
| Grid Reference: | TL 411 650 |
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| Parish: | Oakington and Westwick, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire |
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Monument Type(s):
- PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
1. Cantilevered pillbox
LOCATION: RAF Oakington
2. The pillbox, constructed during the Second World War, is visible as a structures and earthworks on air photographs, centred at TL 4112 6501. The feature formed part of the perimeter defence to RAF Oakington and is adjacent to a surface shelter which is included within that record. The pillbox is extant on the latest 2013 vertical photography.
<1> Defence of Britain Project Archive (Digital archive). SCB19971.
<2> SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP), 2016, Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4165 19-JUL-2013 (Geospatial data). SCB63380.
<3> SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP), 2016, RAF/58/5754 F22 0085 04-JUN-1963 (Geospatial data). SCB63381.
<4> Francis, P., 2011, RAF Oakington Gazetteer of Surviving Structures (Unpublished report). SCB52282.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Digital archive: Defence of Britain Project Archive. |
| <2> | Geospatial data: SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP). 2016. Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4165 19-JUL-2013. |
| <3> | Geospatial data: SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP). 2016. RAF/58/5754 F22 0085 04-JUN-1963. |
| <4> | Unpublished report: Francis, P.. 2011. RAF Oakington Gazetteer of Surviving Structures. |
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| CB15144 | Related to: RAF Oakington (Monument) |
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