{"id":5328,"date":"2015-03-08T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T11:29:41","slug":"wickham-bishops-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wickham-bishops-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Wickham Bishops Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wickham Bishops Road Defences,\u00a0Witham,\u00a0Essex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I visited a site at Wickham bishops road, Essex.\u00a0It is recorded by Fred Nash and the SEAX group as a road barrier with irregular concrete blocks.\u00a0However, upon closer inspection of these blocks the thought occurred to me that they look more sections of a demolished\/destroyed pillbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are about ten pieces that I could count (it was very wet dull and muddy and overgrown!) With one piece very interesting as it has a steel plate fixed to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This appears to be too irregular for manufactured blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Steel plate approx 18inches square 1\/4inch thick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This looks like the one designed specifically as a block. However, they do appear to be WWII concrete. My car in the photos gives some idea as to scale.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A few hundred yards up the road is a WWII ammunition store. It is one of two that still survives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Glenn Fitzgerald<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wickham Bishops Road Defences,\u00a0Witham,\u00a0Essex. Today I visited a site at Wickham bishops road, Essex.\u00a0It is recorded by Fred Nash and the SEAX group as a road barrier with irregular concrete blocks.\u00a0However, upon closer inspection of these blocks the thought occurred to me that they look more sections of a demolished\/destroyed pillbox. There are about ten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[137],"class_list":{"0":"post-5328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-essex","8":"tag-wickham","9":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk\/gazetteersubsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}