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Name:Pillbox (destroyed), A1306
SMR Number:10254
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TQ 589 794
Map Sheet:TQ57NE
Parish:THURROCK, ESSEX

Summary

This pillbox can be faintly seen in an aerial photograph taken in 1946.

Full description

Contemporary records state, "Pill box..... Railway Bridge, Stifford. Map ref. 033982" (Mil.Ed.). <1> This pillbox can be faintly seen in an aerial photograph taken in 1946 standing on the N side of the road about 100 yards to the W of the bridge. <2>


Historic Landscape Management, 2002, Mardyke Valley Project; A Brief Landscape History of the Mardyke Valley (DESC TEXT). SEX68863.


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


<2> RAF, 1946, 44-14-3095 (AP). SEX31769.

Monument Types

  • PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Events

  • Mardyke River Valley Project (Ref: ?)

Protected Status

  • Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 120_5 - Lower Mar Dyke
  • Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 120

Sources and further reading

---DESC TEXT: Historic Landscape Management. 2002. Mardyke Valley Project; A Brief Landscape History of the Mardyke Valley.
<1>LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Grays Thurrock.
<2>AP: RAF. 1946. 44-14-3095.