Record Details
| NHER Number: | 25539 |
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| Type of record: | Monument |
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| Name: | World War Two airfield |
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Summary
This World War Two military airfield was in use around 1940. The airfield was used by Lysanders either for coastal patrols or for calibrating shore guns.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4791 1763 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41NE |
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| Parish: | HEMSBY, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Airfield.
In use around 1940. Details kept confidential but used by Lysanders apparently either for coastal patrols or for calibrating shore guns.
See (S1).
February 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The airfield described above was not visible on the consulted aerial photographs. This may have been because all traces were removed by September 1945, when the earliest aerial photographs were taken (S2-3). It may also have been because Lysanders would have required little in the way of infrastructure (James Albone, NLA, pers. comm.).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 2 February 2006.
Monument Types
- MILITARY AIRFIELD (World War Two - 1939 AD to 1945 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Publication: Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum. 1989. Airfields and Airstrips of Norfolk and Suffolk. 6. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/832 3209-10 23-SEP-1945 (NHER TG 4818A-B). |
| <S3> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1945. RAF 106G/UK/832 4209-10 23-SEP-1945 (NHER TG 4617B, TG 4717A). |
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