| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), fields between Shrub End Road and Layer Road, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 20534 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 980 232 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL92SE |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox
Full description
The anti-tank ditch around the west and south of Colchester ran across the fields from Shrub End Road to Layer Road. At this point the ditch ran round a pillbox emplaced at a junction of three fields. An aerial photograph taken in March 1945 shows this clearly. It was an hexagonal type with its entrance on the NE face. From here it would have dominated the meadows across the anti-tank ditch to the west. <1>
This entire area has now been built over and the original site of the pillbox lies between Gloucester Avenue and Devon Road.
<1> RAF, 1945, 106G-LA 170-2014 (AP). SEX64232.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Colchester - Lexden to Mersea Road by Fred Nash (Ref: Nash COL Apr-Aug 2001)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1945. 106G-LA 170-2014. |
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