Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35390 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of Royal Observer Corps post |
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Summary
A Royal Observer Corps post set up in 1959 and closed in 1968. No traces of the post survive on the site.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2023 9208 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM29SW |
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| Parish: | LONG STRATTON, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Royal Observer Corps post.
Set up June 1959, closed October 1968. No trace remains.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NLA), July 2000.
August 2017-March 2018. Geophysical Survey.
The survey of this field identified a high amplitude anomaly adjacent to Hall Lane that may indicate the location of the Royal Observer Corps post. This anomaly has a diameter of approximately 25m and is centred at TM 2016 9211, about 65m to the north-west of the mapped location of this record.
Information from draft report. Final version awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2021.
Monument Types
- ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS SITE (Mid 20th Century to Late 20th Century - 1959 AD to 1968 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Article in Serial: Catford, N. 1999. Royal Observer Corps Underground Posts in Norfolk. Norfolk Industrial Archaeology Society Journal. Vol 6, No 4, pp 59-70. pp 59ff. |
Related records - none
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