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Name:East Tilbury - Coalhouse Fort
SMR Number:1756
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:TQ 691 768
Map Sheet:TQ67NE
Parish:East Tilbury, THURROCK, ESSEX

Summary

1539-Henry VIII ordered a blockhouse to be erected at East Tilbury.

Full description

1539-Henry VIII ordered a blockhouse to be erected at East Tilbury. <1> <2> "The earliest blockhouse of 1539 lies nearer to the foreshore". It was hoped in 1984 that a trial trench would be able to locate it. <3> Photo refs <4>

Monument Types

  • BLOCKHOUSE (C16 Medieval to Post Medieval - 1539 AD to 1900 AD)

Protected Status

  • Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 117
  • Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 3
  • Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 110
  • Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 110_2
  • Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 117_1
  • Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 117_2
  • Scheduled Monument 12707: Coalhouse Fort battery and artillery defences

Sources and further reading

---AP: Saunders, Helen. 2006. CP/06/26/05-06. 2 frames, 3/11/06
<1>DESC TEXT: unknown. 1960s to. SMR Form.
<2>DESC TEXT: unknown. 1979. TQ67NE19.
<3>EXCAV REPORT: Priddy, DA. 1986. Excavations in Essex, 1983-4 Part of Essex Archaeology and History Volume 16. p.127, Catton, JPJ
<4>Photograph: unknown. 1986.

Images

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

Coalhouse Fort, East Tilbury, Thurrock © Essex County Council

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