Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), between Layer Road and Berechurch Road, Colchester |
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SMR Number: | 20543 |
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Type of record: | Monument |
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Grid Reference: | TL 990 230 |
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Map Sheet: | TL92SE |
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Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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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. Clearly smaller than those along the Colchester anti-tank ditch, it was probably an hexagonal Type FW3/22. <1> <2>
From this position the pillbox would have overlooked the ditch which ran across the fields some 150/200 yards to the S.
Nothing of it now survives and the area is tree-lined agricultural land.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1367-7358 (AP). SEX64246.
<2> RAF, 1948, 58-44-5297 (AP). SEX64247.
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
<1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1367-7358. |
<2> | AP: RAF. 1948. 58-44-5297. |
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