Record Details
| NHER Number: | 18036 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two Type 22 pillbox, Meeting House Hill |
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Summary
A World War Two Type 22 pillbox survives as an extant structure by the roadside at Meeting House Hill. It is visible on aerial photographs from 1946 and 1971 and is also depicted by modern Ordnance Survey mapping. It would have formed part of the line of defences established along the River Ant during World War Two. By 1992 it had been painted cream and converted to an extension of the adjacent house
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 3056 2828 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG32NW |
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| Parish: | WORSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
East of almshouses.
Pill box; octagonal or polygonal, concrete facing over brick.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 April 1982.
1992.
Now painted cream and converted to extension of adjacent house
E. Rose (NAU), 2 March 1992
See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Common, type 22 pillbox, painted buff and attached to garage.
Loops blocked. Date 1940.
Survey No. H2-5 (S1).
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.
November 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The World War Two Type 22 pillbox described above is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S2)-(S4), centred at TG 3056 2828. It is also depicted by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping. It would have formed part of the line of defences that was erected along the River Ant stop line, as described in Kent (1988) (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 November 2006.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/22) (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
- PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 3080-1 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 3028A-B). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1971. OS/71088 177-8 21-APR-1971. |
| <S4> | Publication: Kent, P. 1988. Fortifications of East Anglia. p 190. |
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