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Type 22 pillbox. Marks of wooden shuttering clearly visible. Piece of metal fencing on roof and one side. Bent over metal bars on roof [may once have supported camouflage netting?]. Y-shaped blast wall inside. Holes for door hinges on either side of entrance. Faces W.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/03/14)
Type 22 pillbox originally on boundary of the RAF Canewdon radar station Receiver Site. The entrance may originally have had a steel door as holes in the concrete indicate this.
(Source: SMR 2003/08)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1972)
Type 22 concrete-faced pillbox. Good example. Metal bars protrude from roof: metal pipe also runs down wall [purpose unknown]. One embrasure blocked. Access possible, exterior and interior. Faces W. GPS gives TQ 9037494648.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/13)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | Behind Village Hall, Lambourne Hall Road, Canewdon.
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Area |
Canewdon, Essex, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 90370 94641
(Scale: 1:2500
, 1972)
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Period | WW2 |
Condition | Good |
Materials | Reinforced Concrete |
Recorder | Capstick, D. J. |
Defence grouping |
RAF Canewdon defences - Defences of the Chain Home Radar Station at Canewdon, Essex. |
Photographs |
![]() (4) - exterior views. |
Adjacent sites | Pillbox TQ902947
Pillbox: TQ 906945 |
DOB site reference: | S0000439 |
Associated Identifier | Essex SMR (ref: 20767) |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, In 1997/03/11 Field Visit, On 2002/06/13 Field Visit, On 2000/03/14 |