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HHER Number:2576
Type of record:Monument
Name:SITE OF PILLBOX, PARK LANE PARADISE, CHESHUNT

Summary

Site of a pillbox camouflaged as a bus shelter

Grid Reference:TL 341 048
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

Site of a pillbox on the west side of Park Lane Paradise on the north corner of Gammons Lane junction <1, 2>. Now demolished, it was once camouflaged to represent a bus shelter <2, 3>.


<1> Rooke, Peter E, 1989, Cheshunt at war, - p102; photo, p2 (Bibliographic reference). SHT8554.


<3> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 31.1.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: Rooke, Peter E. 1989. Cheshunt at war. - p102; photo, p2.
<3>Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 31.1.1992.

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