| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), overlooking anti-tank ditch between Layer Road and Berechurch Road, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 20541 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 984 229 |
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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 which guarded the south of Colchester ran E from Layer Road. At TL 9849 2290 it skirted an hexagonal pillbox with an entrance in the NW face. This can be clearly seen on a wartime aerial photograph taken in March 1945. An aerial photograph taken four months later shows that the ditch along this stretch was filled in between these two dates. <1> <2>
The site of the pillbox has now been built over by the houses of Fallowfield Road.
<1> RAF, 1945, 106G-LA 170-2013 (AP). SEX64240.
<2> RAF, 1945, 106G-UK 555-4069 (AP). SEX64241.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 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 170-2013. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1945. 106G-UK 555-4069. |
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