Record Details

NHER Number:30945
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two anti-tank blocks

Summary

Several concrete anti-tank blocks of about 1940, situated at the north end of Lyng Bridge over the River Wensum to the east of the road.

Images

  • Anti-tank blocks at Sparham.  © Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service

Location

Grid Reference:TG 0718 1782
Map Sheet:TG01NE
Parish:SPARHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK

Full description

A tank trap was installed at the north end of Lyng Bridge, to the east.
Several concrete blocks were apparently set on the old ford approach.
E. Rose (NLA), 27 November 1994.

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Common 1940 anti-tank blocks north of the River Wensum, east of the road.
Survey No. L1-8.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

December 2007. Norfolk NMP.
Four square structures can be detected at the corners of the bridge crossing in 1946 (S1). It was initially assumed that this was the original position of the anti-tank cubes. However later (and clearer) photographs of the bridge, such as (S2), indicate that the bridge still has four stone uprights at these points. Therefore no definite signs of the anti-tank cubes in their original positions can be identified, indicating that they had already been moved by January 1946 (S1).
S. Massey (NMP), 19 December 2007.

Monument Types

  • TANK TRAP (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 3G/TUD/UK/51 5068-9 31-JAN-1946 (NHER TG 0717A, C).
<S2>Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D.A. (NLA). 1984. NHER TG 0717C (NLA 142/AUW5) 04-APR-1984.

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