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Type 27 pillbox.
(Source: Field Visit )
Octagonal pillbox with attached entrance porch. Faces N. Plotted from OS 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1971)
Pillbox plotted from air photograph.
(Source: Air Photograph 1946/10/10)
Brick-faced (exterior) octagonal type 27 pillbox with central well to mount an anti-aircraft gun. Faces N. Loopholed blastwall attached to main structure at roof level, and with entrances on either side. Chamfered roof edge. Small. stepped embrasures, with gas vents above them. VThe central well is approached from the inside by an iron rung ladder through steel doors still in position.Heavily overgrown. Access possible at edge of field. Interior access possible.
(Source: Field Visit 2003/07/15)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27)
      

      

        Location
        At edge of field 150 yards NNE of Appleby Street Farm. 

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Cheshunt , Hertfordshire, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TL 33473 04526
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1971)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete, 
            Steel
        
      

      

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

        		
      

      

        Recorder
        Foot, William (English Heritage Defence Areas Project)
      

      

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

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) - S0005064
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27) - S0005064
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0005064

      

      

        Reference
        
              Invasion Defences 1940 [parish of Cheshunt].

             1946/10/10 CPE/UK/779 (fr.3012)

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, On 2003/07/15 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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