| Name: | Spigot Mortar Emplacement (destroyed), Ipswich Road, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10900 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 008 256 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02NW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
A spigot mortar emplacement 25 yards N of a pillbox.
Full description
An aerial photograph taken by the RAF in 1946 shows the clear shape of a spigot mortar emplacement 25 yards N of a pillbox (SMR 10899). It is on the W side of Ipswich Road and an anti-tank ditch runs behind it, between it and the pillbox. From this position it would have had a clear view of the approach to Colchester along Ipswich Road. <1>
The area is now the front of Orchard Gardens.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-4197 (AP). SEX61751.
Monument Types
- SPIGOT MORTAR EMPLACEMENT (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-4197. |
Related records
| 10899 | Related to: Pillbox (destroyed), Ipswich Road, Colchester (Monument) |
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