| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Hambro Hill Corner, Rayleigh |
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| SMR Number: | 20687 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TQ 815 917 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ89SW |
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| Parish: | RAYLEIGH, ROCHFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox (destroyed),
Full description
Contemporary records state, “Pill box. Hambro Hill Corner”. An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows open fields to the N and S of Hockley Road around the Hambro Hill junction. However, the natural position for a pillbox would be the W corner between the two roads. Here, it would face E to guard against an attack along Hockley Road. On the aerial photograph, this corner is under thick trees in the front garden of a house and nothing of the pillbox can be seen. <1> <2>
On the ground in 2003, nothing of the pillbox was found to have survived and both sides of Hockley Road are now residential housing.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Rayleigh (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1496-3301 (AP). SEX63391.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 91
- Historic Environment Character Area: Rochford 14
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Rochford 38
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Rayleigh. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1496-3301. |
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