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CHER Number:MCB28733
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War II pillbox, Oakington Airfield

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 412 649
Parish:Oakington and Westwick, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

  • PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

1. A 20th century pillbox is visible as a structure on air photographs, centred at TL 4125 6497. Manufactured during the Second World War, the pillbox formed part of the perimeter defence to RAF Oakington, and is extant on the latest 2013 vertical photography.


<1> SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP), 2016, RAF/58/5754 F22 0085 04-JUN-1963 (Geospatial data). SCB63381.

Sources and further reading

<1>Geospatial data: SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP). 2016. RAF/58/5754 F22 0085 04-JUN-1963.

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CB15144Related to: RAF Oakington (Monument)