Record Details

NHER Number:32437
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two pillbox

Summary

A quite rare type 20/2 polygonal concrete pillbox, built in about 1940 as part of the anti-invasion defences of the time.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 91288 44128
Map Sheet:TF94SW
Parish:WELLS NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Quite rare, type 20/2 pill box, date 1940/41. South of NHER 23977. Blast wall covering entrance is damaged.
Survey No. C3-9.
Information from [1]. See record form in file.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

October 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Pillbox mapped for NMP by A. Miller (Suffolk County Council). No photograph reference given at the time, but this pillbox is visible on Environment Agency 2002 aerial photographs.
H. Clare (NMP), 11 October 2002.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Kent, P.. 1995. KHH 8A - 9A.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Vertical Aerial Photograph: Environment Agency. 2002. EA 033 AF/02C/337 5646-7 19-JUL-2002 (EA).

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