| Name: | Floodlight (destroyed), N of Woodhill Road, Sandon |
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| SMR Number: | 20887 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 740 049 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL70SW |
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| Parish: | SANDON, CHELMSFORD, ESSEX |
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Summary
Floodlight
Full description
An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows the clear outline of an experimental “floodlight” standing in a rough meadow 100 yards N of Woodhill Road. The base of its generator building can be seen a few yards away to the N. <1>
The entire area has now been built over by an electricity generating station and nothing can have survived of the floodlight site.
<1> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1496-4068, May 1946 (AP). SEX31671.
Monument Types
- FLOODLIGHT (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Events
- Visit by Fred Nash - Jan 2005 (Ref: Nash CHL Jan 2005)
Protected Status
- Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 4.5
- Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 4
Sources and further reading
| <1> | AP: RAF. 1946. 106G-UK 1496-4068. May 1946. |
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