Summary

Road Barrier (destroyed)

Full description

Contemporary records state, “Road Barrier. Road No. N. 805, Hopping Jack’s Lane. Map ref. 231238”. (Mil. Ed.) <1>

An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows a house standing on an area of land to the N of Hopping Jacks Lane. Leading from the SE corner of the house to the roadway is a triple row of anti-tank pimples. These would have been the roadside element of an anti-tank barrier across the lane at the above NGR. The house no longer survives and a surgery has been built on the land a few yards to the NW of the original house site. <2>.

Nothing of the pimples or the road 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 Area: Chelmsford 5
• Conservation Area: Danbury
• Historic Environment Character Zone: Chelmsford 5.2

Sources and further reading

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