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Type 22 pillbox. Bent bits of metal on roof that presumably held camouflage netting. Almost all embrasures have been blocked up. There is one rifle embrasure next to the entrance, and possibly a second one that has been blocked up. Small holes either side of the entrance. Internal blast wall.
(Source: Field Visit 2000/03/14)
Hexagonal pillbox plotted from aerial photograph. Indications are that originally this was a tall pillbox, similar to that to its S [see UORN 13637).
(Source: Air Photograph 1953/02/09)
Type 22 pillbox by the former entrance to the Receiver Site of RAF Canewdon radar station.
(Source: SMR 2003/08)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1972)
Type 22 concrete-faced pillbox, at very edge of road. Embrasures now blocked in. Metal rods protrude from roof. Faces E along road.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/13)
Type of site | PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) |
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Location | On N edge of Lambourne Hall Road, E of Village Hall, Canewdon.
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Area |
Canewdon, Essex, England |
Grid reference |
TQ 90480 94520
(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 |
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Adjacent sites | Pillbox TQ902947
Pillbox: TQ 904946 |
DOB site reference: | S0000440 |
Associated Identifier | Essex SMR (ref: 20768) |
Reference |
1953/02/09 V540/RAF/1076 (fr 0128) |
Event |
Field Visit, In 1997/03/11 Field Visit, On 2002/06/13 Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2000/03/14 |