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Rectangular pillbox, with internal dimensions of 7ft x 8ft, with walls 42ins thick. In the front wall is a large stepped embrasure 5ft across on the outside. Without a blast wall.
(Source: Field Visit )
Pillbox variant. Described as an Eastern Command Type in 'Ironside's Line'.
(Source: Book 1999)

Type of site PILLBOX (VARIANT)
Location On River Chelmer, Brick Kiln Lane, E of Chelmsford.
Area Chelmsford, Essex, England
Grid reference TL 744 055
Period WW2
Condition Extant but condition unknown
Materials Reinforced Concrete
Recorder Osborne, Mike (Defence of Britain Project)
Defence grouping GHQ Line (Essex) -
Chelmsford nodal point - Defences of Chelmsford category 'A' nodal point in No.4 region. Cassini ref. M1525. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544].
DOB site reference: S0006978
Reference Pillbox Typology Part 3: Square and Rectangular Types
1999 Ironside's Line
Event Construction, In the period 1940 1941


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