Record Details
| NHER Number: | 51899 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | Site of World War Two Type 24 pillbox on the line of the Norwich anti-tank ditch |
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Summary
A World War TwoType 24 pillbox is as an extant structure visible on aerial photographs, situated just inside the anti-tank ditch (NHER 51893) that surrounded the city of Norwich during the period.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2646 1085 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG21SE |
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| Parish: | SPROWSTON, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
November 2008. Norfolk NMP.
A Type 24 pillbox is visible at TG 2646 1085, located inside the anti-tank ditch (NHER 51893), showing on (S1)-(S5). It occupies a strategic position, being situated at a field corner, approximately 14m to the southeast of a spigot mortar emplacement (NHER 51898), presumably placed to defend a 90 degree bend in the anti-tank ditch at this point, as it follows the field boundary to the north of a substantial wooded area, Racecourse plantation. More recent aerial photographs (S5) illustrate that the pillbox has since been destroyed.
E. Bales, (NMP) 6 November 2008.
Monument Types
- PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) (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
| <S1> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/789 6055-6 10-SEPT-1945 (NMR). |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/789 6029-30 10-SEP-1945 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1143 5025-6 29-JAN-1946 (NMR). |
| <S4> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1947. RAF CPE/UK/2050 5038-45 06-MAY-1947 (NMR). |
| <S5> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: BKS. 1988. BKS 9856 06-AUG-1988 (NCC 1434). |
Related records
| 51893 | Related to: Site of World War Two defensive anti tank ditch around city of Norwich (Monument) |