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| HHER Number: | 6673 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | PILLBOX AND ASSOCIATED ANTI-TANK OBSTACLES, SLIPE LANE RAILWAY CROSSING, TURNFORD |
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| Grid Reference: | TL 368 051 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL30NE |
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| Parish: | Broxbourne (Non Civil Parish), Broxbourne, Hertfordshire |
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| Map: | Show location on Streetmap |
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- TANK TRAP (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Full description
Standing at the railway line level crossing in Slipe Lane, an unusually tall brick & concrete, hexagonal pillbox, purpose-built to cover the marshes to the E & the railway line from the N. It has 8' sides, is 11' high & has a doorway set 3'6" from the ground. The outer brickwork has fallen off the E corner. Anti-tank blocks <1> cover the approaches to the level crossing, nine to the E & seven to the W of the railway, the latter in the back garden of the crossing keeper's house <2>.
<1> Wills, Henry, 1985, Pillboxes, - p40-1 (Bibliographic reference). SHT4015.
<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 4.2.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.
Sources and further reading
| <1> | Bibliographic reference: Wills, Henry. 1985. Pillboxes. - p40-1. |
| <2> | Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 4.2.1992. |
Related records
| 10232 | Part of: WORLD WAR II ANTI-TANK DITCH, OUTER LONDON STOP LINE EASTERN SECTION, FROM NEWGATE STREET TO WORMLEY (Monument) |
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