Site of Second World War ammunition shelter, Ardleigh Court, Ardleigh (EHER 21600)

A World War Two ammunition shelter, now destroyed was located corner of pleasure grounds. The pleasure grounds of Ardleigh Court lay adjacent to the cemetery, on its west side. An ammunition shelter here would have stored resupplies for at least four machine-guns which are listed in this area in War Time Contraventions.

Contemporary records state, “Ammunition Shelter, Ardleigh Court, S.E. corner of pleasure grounds N. of road. Map ref. 504477” (Mil. Ed.). <1> The pleasure grounds of Ardleigh Court lay adjacent to the cemetery, on its west side. An ammunition shelter here would have stored resupplies for at least four machine-guns which are listed in this area in War Time Contraventions. Visited in 2018, the area of Ardleigh Court pleasure grounds north of Harwich Road, A137, has now been re-developed with new houses in lightly wooded grassland. The exact position of this ammunition shelter cannot be determined although nothing of it now appears to survive. <2>