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CHER Number:MCB28736
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War II pillbox, Oakington Airfield

Summary - not yet available

Grid Reference:TL 416 661
Parish:Oakington and Westwick, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire

Monument Type(s):

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

Full description

1. Cantilevered pillbox.

LOCATION: RAF Oakington

2. The 20th century pillbox, which was constructed during the Second World war, is visible as a structure on air photographs, centred at TL 4061 6617. It formed a part of the perimeter defences to RAF Oakington (UID 1407421) and appears to have been demolished at some point after 2008 as it is no longer extant on the latest 2013 vertical photography. This demolition is presumably due to the construction of the New Town of Northstowe.


<1> Defence of Britain Project Archive, 4839 (Digital archive). SCB19971.

<2> SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP), 2016, Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4066 12-OCT-2008 (Geospatial data). SCB63382.

Sources and further reading

<1>Digital archive: Defence of Britain Project Archive. 4839.
<2>Geospatial data: SW Cambridgeshire project 2014 (NHPP). 2016. Next Perspectives PGA Imagery TL4066 12-OCT-2008.

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CB15144Related to: RAF Oakington (Monument)

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