Record Details

NHER Number:26701
Type of record:Monument
Name:Site of a World War Two pillbox on Holme Beach

Summary

A World War Two pillbox is visible amongst beach defence scaffolding (NHER 26694) on aerial photographs taken in 1944. It has since been destroyed.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 6965 4420
Map Sheet:TF64SE
Parish:HOLME NEXT THE SEA, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

January 2001. NMP.
A pillbox is visible on the 1944 aerial photographs (S1) at TF 6965 4420. It appears to be hexagonal in shape, and is located on the line of the coastal defence scaffolding (NHER 26694), just above the 1940s high water mark. This would have formed part of the coastal defences of this area in World War Two.
A. Hunt (NMP), 18 January 2001.

Monument Types

  • PILLBOX (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA 67 Frame 3135 2-DEC-1944 (NMR).

Related records

26694Related to: World War Two beach scaffolding and a barbed wire obstruction (Monument)
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