Summary

Pillbox

Full description

Aerial photographs taken in April 1946 and May 1948 show a pillbox on the N side of a track between Layer Road and Berechurch Road. A 1:1250 OS map, compiled in 1952, shows it as hexagonal with an entrance on the NW face. Clearly smaller than those along the Colchester anti-tank ditch, it was probably a Type FW3/22. <1> <2> <3>

From this position the pillbox would have overlooked the ditch which ran across the fields some 150/200 to the S.

Aerial photographs from 1970 and 1980 show it to have been demolished between those two dates. The area is now MOD property.

<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1367-7358 (AP). SEX64243.

<2> RAF, 1948, 58-44-5298 (AP). SEX64244.

<3> Ordnance Survey, unknown, 1:1250 OS Post War National Grid, TL9823SE date 1952 (Map). SEX64245.

Monument Types

• PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)? (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

Search results generated by the HBSMR Gateway from exeGesIS SDM Ltd.