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Name:Pillbox (destroyed), A120, Harwich
SMR Number:10679
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TM 227 312
Map Sheet:TM23SW
Parish:HARWICH, TENDRING, ESSEX

Summary

An aerial photograph taken in 1948 shows an hexagonal pillbox, with a protective "skirt" and anti-aircraft machine-gun well on the E side, standing by a field boundary 250 yards S of Ramsey Creek.

Full description

An aerial photograph taken in 1948 shows an hexagonal pillbox, with a protective "skirt" and anti-aircraft machine-gun well on the E side, standing by a field boundary 250 yards S of Ramsey Creek. <1> This area is now the A120 roadway.


<1> RAF, 1948, CPE-UK 2534-5140 (AP). SEX42467.

Monument Types

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

Sources and further reading

<1>AP: RAF. 1948. CPE-UK 2534-5140.