Summary

Road Barrier (destroyed).

Full description

Contemporary records state, “Road Block – concrete pimples in garden. Blacksmiths Cottage, Eves Corner” and “Road Barrier. Road No. A.414, Bakers Arms. Map ref. 231237”. (Mil. Ed.) <1>

“Blacksmiths Cottage” still stands on the N side of the A414, 100 yards to the E of Eves Corner. “The Bakers Arms” public house is a few yards to the E on the same side of the road. An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 clearly shows a triple-row band of pimples in the front garden of the “Blacksmiths Cottage” (at least seven can be seen). These would have formed the roadside element of a road barrier across the A414 at this point. <2>

Nothing of the pimples or the carriageway element of the barrier now survives.

<1> unknown, 1968, War Time Contraventions 1968, Danbury (LIST). SEX31436.

<2> RAF, 1946, 106G-UK 1496-4062, May 1946 (AP). SEX65436.

Monument Types

• ROAD BARRIER (WWII, Modern - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Events

• Visit by Fred Nash - Nov 2004 (Ref: Nash CHL Nov 2004)

Protected Status

• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 5.2
• Historic Environment Character Area: Chelmsford 5
• Conservation Area: Danbury

Sources and further reading

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