Summary

Pillbox now destroyed.

Full description

Contemporary records state, 'A/T ditch, pillbox and dannert (barbed) wiring. OS No. 407 (Layer Road) - past Lamberts Farm. Map ref. 42640' (Mil Ed.) and 'Pillbox. Near junction of Layer and Berechurch Roads. Map ref. 426408' (Mil. Ed.) <1>
This pillbox can be seen, indistinctly, on aerial photographs taken in 1945. It stood by the side of the road approximately 200 yards north of the Berechurch Hall Road junction. A short anti-tank ditch protected its west flank. Open fields in 1945, the area is now housing and light industry. <2> <3>

<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester p.3 (LIST). SEX31436.

<2> RAF, 1945, 106G-LA 170-2014, March 1945 (AP). SEX61336.

<3> RAF, 1945, 106G-UK 555-4069, July 1945 (AP). SEX61337.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Events

• Colchester - Southern Perimeter WWII Defences (Ref: ?)
• Colchester - Lexden to Mersea Road by Fred Nash (Ref: Nash COL Apr-Aug 2001)

Sources and further reading

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