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| HHER Number: | 1897 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | PILLBOX AND ANTI-TANK OBSTACLE, BREAD AND CHEESE LANE, CHESHUNT |
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Summary
Type 27 octagonal pillbox, with adjacent anti-tank block
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| Grid Reference: | TL 329 049 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL30SW |
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| Parish: | Broxbourne (Non Civil Parish), Broxbourne, Hertfordshire |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- TANK TRAP (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
Octagonal concrete pillbox (Type 27) on west side of Bread and Cheese Lane. The position, near the top of a hill, gives a dominating view across the valley to the NW. The type 27 features a central well for mounting a Bren or Lewis gun in an anti-aircraft role and the iron doors to this are intact. Alongside the pillbox is an anti-tank block of 3' 6" construction which has been positioned so as not to restrict the arc of fire from any gun aperture <1>. The whole site is heavily overgrown <2>.
Visited January 2002, no change <3>.
<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p23, 34-5, 40 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.
<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 22.1.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.
<3> Jim Apps, site visit, 13.1.2002 (Verbal communication). SHT5651.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p23, 34-5, 40. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 22.1.1992. |
| <3> | Verbal communication: Jim Apps, site visit. 13.1.2002. |
Related records
| 10232 | Part of: WORLD WAR II ANTI-TANK DITCH, OUTER LONDON STOP LINE EASTERN SECTION, FROM NEWGATE STREET TO WORMLEY (Monument) |
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