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Type 27 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit 1997/07/29)
Type 27 pillbox. Faces NE. With steel doors to central well and attached loopholed blast wall. The pillbox is so overgrown a proper inspection is impossible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/08/22)
Octagonal pillbox with attached entrance porch. Faces N. Plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1971)
Pillbox with open central well plotted from air photograph. Faces N.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/10/10)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27)
      

      

        Location
        In the grounds of Cheshunt Park at the boundary with land of Cheshunt Park Farm. 

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Cheshunt , Hertfordshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 34663 04458
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1971)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Threats
        
            Type: Plant growth (Long Term) 
Detail: The pillbox is very overgrown.

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Hansen, M.
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 London Stop Line: Outer - Line A (outer suburbs) of London defence rings. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) - S0000583
         

     (1) external view  		
      

      

        Adjacent sites
        Type 22 pillbox: TL 35050444, Concrete Cubes: TL 34850444

      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0000583

      

      

        Reference
        
              Invasion Defences 1940 [parish of Cheshunt].

             1946/10/10 CPE/UK/779 (fr.3014)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 1997/07/29 

            Field Visit, On 2003/08/22 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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