| Name: | Pillbox (destroyed) on sea wall E of Coney Hall |
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| SMR Number: | 10010 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TR 031 967 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR09NW |
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| Parish: | BURNHAM-ON-CROUCH, MALDON, ESSEX |
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Summary
A pillbox is reliably reported to have stood on the sea wall at this point.
Full description
A pillbox is reliably reported to have stood on the sea wall at this point. It was destroyed when the sea wall was swept away in the floods of 1953.<1> <2> It is unknown whether it was of the single or double-ended type but as single-ended appear to have been constructed where there is a wide field of fire on only one side of the sea wall it is suspected that this was of the double-ended type. See Site No. 10001 for example. One photo of site.<3>
<1> Wills, H, 1993, LIST by Wills, H in collection of Fred Nash (LIST). SEX31450.
<2> local resident, unknown, PERS COMM by wartime landowner (Verbal communication). SEX31451.
<3> Nash, Fred, 1993, SMR, one frame (Photograph). SEX31432.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Sources and further reading
| <1> | LIST: Wills, H. 1993. LIST by Wills, H in collection of Fred Nash. |
| <2> | Verbal communication: local resident. unknown. PERS COMM by wartime landowner. |
| <3> | Photograph: Nash, Fred. 1993. SMR. one frame. |
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