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Type 24 thick walled pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1940/08/31)
Type 24 shell-proof pillbox. Faces SE.
(Source: Book 1999)
Pillbox buried in hedgerow, and so overgrown exact type could not be seen.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/05/14)
Anti-aircraft machine gun post [plotted from German aerial photograph GB 1042 R - 063-068].
(Source: Air Photograph )
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from aerial photograph. It appears to have a central well for AA mount.
(Source: Air Photograph )


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        In hedgerow, near W bank of River Chelmer, N of Ford End.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Great Waltham, Essex, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 67427 17753
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Fair

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: Pillbox very heavily overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 GHQ Line (Essex) -  

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0007584
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0007584

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Essex SMR (ref: 10542)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1999 Ironside's Line

             1940/10/23 Taktisches Luftbildbuch Nr.3

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2002/05/14 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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