| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Hythe Marshes, Colchester |
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| SMR Number: | 10880 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 028 229 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02SW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
A double-ended pillbox on the W bank of the R. Colne.
Full description
An aerial photograph taken in 1946 shows the distinct shape of a double-ended pillbox on the W bank of the R. Colne at Hythe Marshes. It sits across the bank of the earthen seawall with the entrance on the northern long face. <1>
No sign of it now remains.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-3362 (AP). SEX61734.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-3362. |
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