| Name: | Cantilever Pillbox (destroyed), NE of Rochford Airfield |
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| SMR Number: | 20733 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TQ 874 898 |
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| Map Sheet: | TQ88NE |
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| Parish: | ROCHFORD, ROCHFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
"Cantilever" Pillbox (destroyed),
Full description
Low-level aerial photographs taken in August 1947 show, very clearly, the wartime defences of Rochford Airfield. The NE corner was particularly well defended with four pillboxes, all close to each other. This one was an F.C. Construction Company "cantilever" type an upside-down saucer of concrete suspended on a central pillar to give a 360 degree field of fire. <1> <2>
The site is now the southern boundary of a golf course but nothing of the pillbox now survives.
<1> RAF, 1947, CPE-UK 2226-5560 (AP). SEX63499.
<2> Wills, H, 1985, Pillboxes, p.20 (DESC TEXT). SEX31431.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (CANTILEVERED) (WWII, Second World War - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- WWII Defences in Rochford (Ref: ?)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Rochford 17
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Thames Gateway 88_1
- Historic Environment Character Area: Thames Gateway 88
- Historic Environment Character Area: Rochford 8
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1947. CPE-UK 2226-5560. |
| <2> | DESC TEXT: Wills, H. 1985. Pillboxes. p.20. |
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