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HHER Number:6604
Type of record:Building
Name:PILLBOX, WOODHALL SPINNEY, WOODHALL LANE, SHENLEY

Summary

Type 24 pillbox on the Outer London Stop Line

Images

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Grid Reference:TL 187 001
Map Sheet:TL10SE
Parish:Shenley, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire
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Monument Types

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

Full description

Type 24 <1> pillbox standing in dense undergrowth by a footpath at the end of a spinney to the W of Woodhall Lane. Facing N across open grassland towards Shenley Hospital, built of concrete and in good overall condition <2>.


<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p30-1 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.


<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 17.3.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.

Sources and further reading

<1>Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p30-1.
<2>Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 17.3.1992.

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