Monument record MCC4804 - WWII Pillbox, west side of Railway, N of Janke's Green Railway Bridge, Mount Bures
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TL 9056 3098 (point) |
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Map sheet | TL93SW |
Civil Parish | MOUNT BURES, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
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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>.
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Record last edited
Jun 17 2020 7:47AM