Summary

Pillbox (destroyed), field SW of Mount Bures level crossing

Full description

Contemporary records state, "a) Pillbox and spigot mortar position. O.S. No. 76, arable field S.W. of and adj. railway crossing. Map ref. 353508." (Mil. Ed.) A 1:2500 map dated 1961 shows a hexagonal shape in the NW corner of this field on the S side of the road. An aerial photograph taken in 1949 shows the pillbox indistinctly, possibly an FW3/22 with its entrance on the NW face. <1> <2> <3>

Between 1960 and 1970 the bend in the road W of the level crossing was slightly straightened and the site of the pillbox is probably now in the roadway.

<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Bures (LIST). SEX31436.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1945-present, 1:2500, TL9032-TL9132, 1961 (Map). SEX60991.

<3> RAF, 1949, 58-304-5365 (AP). SEX61873.

<4> Wills, H, 1985, Pillboxes, measured plan p.28 (DESC TEXT). SEX31431.

<5> Tyler, Sue, 1986, 12/6/86 (AP). SEX61905.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)? (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Sources and further reading

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