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HHER Number:2283
Type of record:Building
Name:PILLBOX, CHESHUNT PARK FARM, CHESHUNT

Summary

Type 22 pillbox in strategic position on the Outer London Stop Line

Images

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Grid Reference:TL 354 044
Map Sheet:TL30SE
Parish:Broxbourne (Non Civil Parish), Broxbourne, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

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

Associated Events

  • HCC Pillbox Survey, 1991-92

Full description

Hexagonal brick and concrete pillbox (Type 22 <1>) standing in a field N of woodland on Cheshunt Park Farm. Facing NW across open fields to Hell Wood, this pillbox is finely sited to provide a formidable strongpoint <2>.


Nash, Fred, 1992, Pillbox at Cheshunt Park Farm, Cheshunt, PNO 20507 (Photograph). SHT17042.


<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p28 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.


<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 29.1.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Nash, Fred. 1992. Pillbox at Cheshunt Park Farm, Cheshunt. PNO 20507.
<1>Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p28.
<2>Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 29.1.1992.

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