Site of Second World War ammunition shelters, Latchingdon Hall (formerly The Rectory) (EHER 20633)

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Now destroyed. Two ammunition shelters are recorded as having been constructed in the gardens of Latchingdon Hall (formerly The Rectory), probably to support the nearby road barrier EHER 20634.

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Grid reference TQ 8892 9872 (point)
Civil Parish LATCHINGDON, MALDON, ESSEX

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November 2002-January 2003. World War Two Defences in Maldon survey: site visit and desktop research. Contemporary records state, '2 storehouses for ammun. The Rectory. Map ref. 333172 (Mil. Ed.)'. <1> The rectory on the NW corner of the Lower Burnham Road/Rectory Lane junction is now a private house, Latchingdon Hall. The ammunition shelters were probably built in the gardens in support of the road barrier EHER 20634. Nothing of them now survives. <2>

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  • <1> LIST: Essex County Council. 1968. War Time Contraventions. Latchingdon.
  • <2> Report: Nash, F.. 2010. Survey of World War Two Defences in the District of Maldon: Volume Two.

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