| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed), Nr Malthouse Arms, Hythe |
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| SMR Number: | 10884 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TM 021 237 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM02SW |
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| Parish: | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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Summary
Pillbox
Full description
Contemporary records state, "Pillbox. Nr. Tower in Meadow nr. Malthouse Arms, Hythe. Map ref. 469421."(Mil. Ed.). <1>
An aerial photograph taken in 1946 shows a meadow on the S side of the Malthouse Arms beside the River Colne with what is probably the tower in its centre. The pillbox cannot be seen but may have been underneath a large tree some yards to the SE of the tower – this must have been a water tower as the owner of the meadow, given in War Time Contraventions, is stated as South Essex Waterworks Co. <2>
This meadow is now a woodyard.
<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Colchester (LIST). SEX31436.
<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1492-3275 (AP). SEX61739.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: unknown. 1968. War Time Contraventions 1968. Colchester. |
| <2> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1492-3275. |
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