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Tilbury Town Defences

In the civil parish of East Tilbury. In the historic county of Essex (Modern Authority of Thurrock, 1974 county of Essex).

This site has been described as a;
Urban Defence.
  Confidence: It is probable that this site was a medieval fortification or palace.   Nothing visible remains.
The townsmen received orders to impress workmen to dig fortifications in 1402, but the town was refortified in C16, since when all traces of the defences have been obliterated (Turner)
Commission, for one month, to Robert Gosholm, William Lee, Nicholas Denvs and John Archer to take labourers and workmen for the fortification of the town of Est Tilbury, co. Essex, with a wall of earth and garrets, which the men of the town intend to make for defence against French and other enemies. (CPR)
The more vulnerable and strategic East Tilbury, where any defenses would probably have been destroyed by the building of C19 East Tilbury Battery and by remodelling of tidal flood defences.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TQ688769

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This record last updated on Thursday, December 17, 2009

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