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Looking north from the railway bridge, in the middle of the photo, you can see what appears to be two rounded green bushes - standing opposite each other, one either side of the railway track.  These are in fact the two concrete structures of a railway block that is now overgrown. To the east of the right-hand structure, on the other side of the hedge, stands an anti-tank cube.

 


 

This is the left side of a badly overgrown Type 24 pillbox.  The box faces north-east (036 deg.) and is situated just a few yards south-east of the Cloakham railway bridge.

(Map ref. SY 29959 99292)

 


 

To the west of the railway bridge, on the north side of the road, we come to these surviving anti-tank posts.  An anti-tank ditch ran up from the west and terminated at this point. 

[Map ref. SY 29897 99320]

                                                                                 

 

 

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