Summary

Pillbox (destroyed)

Full description

Contemporary records state, “Pill box; barbed wire. Field by Ashingdon School. Map ref. 304125” and “Defence works, Pillbox. Ashingdon Cross Roads. Map ref. 304125” (Mil. Ed.) <1>

This pillbox can be clearly seen on an aerial photograph taken in May 1946. It stood on the W side of Ashingdon Road opposite the junction with Canewdon Road. It was hexagonal with equal sides, probably a Type FW3/22. An aerial photograph taken in June 1960 shows it to have been demolished by that time. <2> <3> <4>

Although the pillbox has been cleared away, signs of it can still be seen as pieces of broken concrete in the field alongside the roadway – some of them with the indentation marks of the reinforcement rods.

<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Ashingdon (LIST). SEX31436.

<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1496-4243 (AP). SEX63404.

<3> Wills, H, 1985, Pillboxes, p.28 (DESC TEXT). SEX31431.

<4> Hunting Surveys Limited, 1960, Run 32-041 (AP). SEX63407.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)? (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Protected Status

• Historic Environment Character Zone: Rochford 24
• Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 139
• Historic Environment Character Area: Rochford 5: Central Rochford District

Sources and further reading

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