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Thesaurus Term/Concept: PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/27A)

Identifier -47
Class MONUMENT TYPE
Status Candidate
Index? Yes
Scope Note An hexagonal version of pillbox type FW3/27, with a projecting entrance, equipped with loopholes for eight light machine guns and a light anti-aircraft mounting sited in a central well which was accessed from inside the pillbox. Designed by DFW branch 3.

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Context Record
Monument Type MEX31924 Pillbox (destroyed), corner of Chigwell Lane/Abridge Road (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31929 Pillbox (destroyed), corner of Pudding Lane (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31910 Pillbox (destroyed), Debden Green Caravan Site (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31914 Pillbox (destroyed), Grosvenor Drive, Debden Green (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31919 Pillbox (destroyed), N boundary of Anti-Aircraft Site, Lough (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31917 Pillbox (destroyed), Pyrles Green, Loughton (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31931 Pillbox (destroyed), S of Abridge Road (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31897 Pillbox, E of Copped Hall, Epping Upland (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31894 Pillbox, Flitches Plantation, Epping Upland (Monument)
Monument Type MEX31904 Pillbox, SW of lake, Copped Hall, Epping Upland (Monument)