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HHER Number:2247
Type of record:Building
Name:PILLBOX, APPLEBY STREET FARM, CHESHUNT

Summary

Octagonal Type 27 pillbox

Images

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No image caption available © Hertfordshire County Council

Grid Reference:TL 336 046
Map Sheet:TL30SW
Parish:Broxbourne (Non Civil Parish), Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

  • PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Full description

Octagonal brick and concrete pillbox (Type 27<1>) on farmland to the S of wide valley. Generally the structure is in good condition and the central well doors are intact. The site is partly overgrown with hedge and bramble but the entrance is clear <2>.


Fred Nash, 1992, Pillbox at Appleby Street Farm, Cheshunt, PNO 20495 (Photograph). SHT17030.


<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p34-5 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.


<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 27.1.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Fred Nash. 1992. Pillbox at Appleby Street Farm, Cheshunt. PNO 20495.
<1>Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p34-5.
<2>Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 27.1.1992.

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