Site of Cold War nuclear monitoring post, Sudbury Hil (EHER 46701)

Now destroyed. A Royal Observer Corps monitoring post. The site is located in a field on Sudbury Hill, south of Sudbury Road. The site was built as part of an extensive network of posts designed to confirm and report hostile aircraft and nuclear attacks on the United Kingdom. The site would have been constructed after 1925 and at the time of the Defence of Britain survey (1995-2002) the site was found to have been destroyed.

On an arable hill top on the north side of a public footpath leading south from Sudbury hill. Demolished. No trace. All surface features of the post were demolished in the mid 1970s but the monitoring room was left intact although not accessible. Two line of concrete fence posts are standing in the rear garden of 7 new park which backs on to the site. As these posts pre-date the property they may come from or form part of the compound. <1> - <3> NRHE data transfer: A Royal Observer Corps monitoring post. The site is located in a field on Sudbury Hill, south of Sudbury Road. The site was built as part of an extensive network of posts designed to confirm and report hostile aircraft and nuclear attacks on the United Kingdom. The site would have been constructed after 1925 and at the time of the Defence of Britain survey (1995-2002) the site was found to have been destroyed. <4>