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HHER Number: | 6938 |
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Type of record: | Building |
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Name: | PILLBOX, ALLEN'S GREEN AIRFIELD N |
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Summary - not yet available
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Monument Types
- PILLBOX (World War II - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Protected Status
- SHINE: WW2 Air Defences,medieval moat & ph earthworks in and surrounding Mathams Wood
- Scheduled Ancient Monument 32451
- Scheduled Ancient Monument 32451-08: RAF SAWBRIDGEWORTH WORLD WAR II AIRFIELD DEFENCES
Full description
A 21' diameter, brick and concrete, hexagonal pillbox almost totally hidden in dense trees and thicket to the N of Matham's Wood. Situated some 80 yards S of the perimeter track, this pillbox probably once stood overlooking open ground to the N but in the past 50 years trees have been planted <1> and the wood has closed in. There are four gun apertures; the inside is in good condition and, possibly uniquely in Herts, there is a date indented neatly on the inner entrance lintel 'APL.11.1941' <2>. The trees have now been cleared and the pillbox lies in light shrubland <3>.
<1> HCC vertical photomapping, 1972-3, October 1971 (sheet 404) (Aerial Photograph). SHT1192.
<2> Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs, 9.6.1992 (Unpublished document). SHT3718.
<3> Nash, F & Tyler, S Hertfordshire County Council, Allen's Green (RAF Sawbridgeworth) SMR Updates November 2001 (Bibliographic reference). SHT7275.
<4> Scheduled Monument description, 18.3.2004 (Scheduling record). SHT9990.
Sources and further reading
<1> | Aerial Photograph: HCC vertical photomapping, 1972-3. October 1971 (sheet 404). |
<2> | Unpublished document: Fred Nash (HCC), site visit and photographs. 9.6.1992. |
<3> | Bibliographic reference: Nash, F & Tyler, S Hertfordshire County Council, Allen's Green (RAF Sawbridgeworth) SMR Updates November 2001. |
<4> | Scheduling record: Scheduled Monument description. 18.3.2004. |
Related records
10133 | Part of: ALLEN'S GREEN (SAWBRIDGEWORTH) AERODROME, HIGH WYCH (Monument) |
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