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Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent is a Second World War defensive installation located in Essex. The site dates from the period of intensive aerial bombardment during the 1940s, when such gun emplacements were erected across southern England to provide air defence against German aircraft. The gunsite would have been equipped with heavy anti-aircraft artillery, typically positioned to cover strategically important areas or transport routes. This monument represents the civilian and military defensive infrastructure that characterised the Essex landscape during the war years.
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020144. View the official record →
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent is a Second World War defensive installation located in Essex. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1020144.
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1020144.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Roman saltern 260m south east of Great Russell Head Farm, Canvey Island (1 km), Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 380m east of Northwick Farm (2.6 km), Hadleigh Castle: an enclosure castle and an associated dam and mill (3.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Heavy Anti-aircraft gunsite, 170m south west of the junction of Cedar Road and West Crescent stands on Thames Group, bedrock that formed in the Eocene. The rock here is clay, silt, sand and gravel.