| Name: | Floodlight (destroyed), E of Hylands Park, Margaretting |
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| SMR Number: | 20884 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 689 037 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL60SE |
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| Parish: | MARGARETTING, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Floodlight
Full description
An aerial photograph taken in June 1946 shows the concrete base of an experimental “floodlight” in a field between the A12 and the railway line, to the E of Hylands Park. The base of its generator building can be seen a few yards away to the S. <1>
Nothing of it now survives and the field is open grassland.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1565-3418, June 1946 (AP). SEX65374.
Monument Types
- FLOODLIGHT (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Visit by Fred Nash - Feb 2005 (Ref: Nash CHL Feb 2005)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 10.1
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 10
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1565-3418. June 1946. |
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