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Bridge has a row of demolition chambers at N end, still hidden under modern road surface.
(Source: Field Visit 1999/02/28)
Type of site | DETONATION CHAMBER |
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Location | King's Bridge, at the bottom of Church Street, Bocking |
Area |
Braintree and Bocking, Essex, England |
Grid reference |
TL 758 254
(Scale: 1:50000
, 1988)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Extant but condition unknown |
Materials | Unknown |
Recorder | Burden, Susannah |
Defence grouping |
Eastern Command: Witham to Bradley Stop Line - A subsidiary stop line sited between Eastern Command Line and the GHQ Line: it runs from the coast inland via Witham to Bradley. Braintree nodal point - Defences of Braintree category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M2041. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
Attached Sheets | (1) - Sketch map of Bocking's lost defences (DIGITISED) |
Photographs |
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DOB site reference: | S0006807 |
Reference |
1999 An oral account of the lost defences of Bocking |
Event |
Field Visit, On 1999/02/28 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 |