Record Details

NHER Number:36874
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two anti-tank ditch

Summary

Aerial photographs taken in 1944 and 1945 show several interconnecting ditches, deepened or altered to act as an anti-tank ditch.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6391 2510
Map Sheet:TF62NW
Parish:NORTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

1944 and 1945. RAF air photography.
Several connecting drainage ditches visible extending from Tf 6249 2447 to TF 6522 2567, northeast of North Wootton, appear to have been deepened or otherwise altered during World War Two to act as an anti-tank ditch.
A. Miller (Suffolk County Council NMP), 30 June 2000.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status

  • SHINE
  • Higher Level Stewardship
  • SHINE

Sources and further reading

---Map: NMP Plot.
---Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA67 Frames 3160-61, 4156 (NMR).
---Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/401 Frames 3189-91 (NMR).
---Secondary File: Secondary File.

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