Measured Survey by RCHME, Chelmsford Entrenchments, Galleywood Common, Chelmsford, 1989 - EEX63233

Chelmsford Entrenchments. The existence of these entrenchments first came to the attention of the RCHME during a periodic OS sweep (update) of mapping around Chelmsford in the summer of 1988. Staff investigated claims that traces of Napoleonic artillery forts and a fragment of a bastion survived on Chelmsford Golf Course and on Galleywood Common. Field investigation confirmed these claims and identified two earthwork gun batteries on the Common. The fort on the golf course was surveyed directly onto OS mapping but the more complex remains at Galleywood were deferred to a later date. In April to May 1989 the entrenchments were surveyed at large scale, the results of this survey have been deposited in the NMR (see TL 70 SW 25). A standard level 3 descriptive and analytical account has been produced to accompany the drawn survey plans, including notes on the instrumental control framework. The archive also includes working copies of documents consulted in the Public Records Office at Kew and the Essex Records Office in Chelmsford.