Monument record MCC4804 - WWII Pillbox, west side of Railway, N of Janke's Green Railway Bridge, Mount Bures

Summary

WWII Pillbox.

Location

Grid reference TL 9056 3098 (point)
Map sheet TL93SW
Civil Parish MOUNT BURES, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

High on the railway embankment, overlooking the deep cutting on its east side, is a brick and concrete hexagonal pillbox. It effectively overhangs the embankment and such are the steep sides that the front faces have been built on top of a brick-built platform which continues the shape of the pillbox down to the ground. Thus these front faces - from the top of the pillbox to the ground - are some 15ft high, while the rear stands on the top of the embankment. Although the rear is in dense hedge and thicket the pillbox appears to be of the same type as that 350 yards to the south (SMR 20023/MCC4803) with steel surrounds to the loopholes and a central anti-aircraft machine-gun well.

One photo of site. <1>

See also <2>.

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Photograph: Nash, Fred. 1997. Pillbox - one frame.
  • <2> Unpublished document: Nash, Fred. 2007. SURVEY OF WORLD WAR TWO DEFENCES IN THE BOROUGH OF COLCHESTER. VOLUME 1. Volume 1.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jun 17 2020 7:47AM

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