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| CHER Number: | MCB28734 |
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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 417 656 |
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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 and remaining in use after the war, is visible as a structure with surrounding earthwork bank on air photographs, centred at TL 4170 6567. The feature formed part of the perimeter defence to RAF Oakington and is extant on the latest 2013 vertical photogaphy.
<1> Defence of Britain Project Archive, 4837 (Digital archive). SCB19971.
<2> SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP), 2016, Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4165 19-JUL-2013 (Geospatial data). SCB63380.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Digital archive: Defence of Britain Project Archive. 4837. |
| <2> | Geospatial data: SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP). 2016. Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4165 19-JUL-2013. |
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| CB15144 | Related to: RAF Oakington (Monument) |
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