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HHER Number:2761
Type of record:Monument
Name:SITE OF PILLBOX, A10/TURNFORD ROUNDABOUT, CHESHUNT

Summary

Probable Type 22

Grid Reference:TL 360 049
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)

Full description

Pillbox near the southbound exit from the A10 at Turnford roundabout, probably destroyed by road building in the 1970s <1, 2>. It appears as a hexagonal structure (probably Type 22 <3>) on the 1973 OS map <4>.


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


<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 3.2.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.


<3> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p28 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.


<4> OS 25 inch plan, post-war edition (1958-81), 1973 (Cartographic material). SHT8120.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: Rooke, Peter E. 1989. Cheshunt at war. - p102.
<2>Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 3.2.1992.
<3>Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p28.
<4>Cartographic material: OS 25 inch plan, post-war edition (1958-81). 1973.

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