| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed) on sea wall on River Blackwater, Tollesbury |
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| SMR Number: | 12148 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 976 092 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL90NE |
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| Parish: | TOLLESBURY, MALDON, ESSEX |
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Summary
Concrete Pillbox.
Full description
October 1996: An aerial photograph taken in 1946 shows an hexagonal pillbox, apparently an FW3/22, on the sea wall at this point over looking the River Blackwater. <2> No trace of it now remains. <1><2>
<1> Hedges, John D, 1973, SMR (DESC TEXT). SEX14000.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1707-4397 (AP). SEX60864.
<3> Wills, H, 1985, Pillboxes (DESC TEXT). SEX31431.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22)? (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | DESC TEXT: Hedges, John D. 1973. SMR. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1707-4397. |
| <3> | DESC TEXT: Wills, H. 1985. Pillboxes. |
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