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Name:Pillbox (destroyed), RAF Chigwell
SMR Number:10380
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TQ 428 941
Map Sheet:TQ49SW
Parish:LOUGHTON, EPPING FOREST, ESSEX

Summary

A plan of RAF Chigwell, dated 1947, shows a pillbox on the SW boundary of the site.

Full description

A plan of RAF Chigwell, dated 1947, shows a pillbox on the SW boundary of the site. <1> The area is now a car park for the Roding Valley Nature Reserve. One photo of site. <2>


<1> Epping Forest D.C. Leisure Services Dept, 1994, A Brief History of RAF Chigwell (LIST). SEX31952.


<2> Nash, Fred, 1996, WWII defences, one frame (Photograph). SEX31461.

Monument Types

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

Sources and further reading

<1>LIST: Epping Forest D.C. Leisure Services Dept. 1994. A Brief History of RAF Chigwell.
<2>Photograph: Nash, Fred. 1996. WWII defences. one frame.