Record Details

NHER Number:30229
Type of record:Monument
Name:World War Two pillbox

Summary

A World War Two pillbox, which is also visible on aerial photographs of this area.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TF 7739 4421
Map Sheet:TF74SE
Parish:BRANCASTER, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

Pill box. Brick, polygonal.
Revealed by cutting back of hedge beside coastal path.
E. Rose (NLA), 7 December 1993.

See (S1) in file which adds:
Type 24 pillbox. Situated in hedge line bordering marsh. Date 1940.
Survey No. C1-6.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

September 2002. Norfolk NMP.
Type 24 pillbox dating from 1940 (S2). Mapped as part of NMP.
M. Brennand (NMP), 3 September 2003.

November 2016.
Not visible amidst dense undergrowth, brambles etc.
D. Gurney (HES), 11 November 2016.

Monument Types

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

Associated Finds - none

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHE 32.
---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
<S2>Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1571 4016 07-JUN-1946 (SMR TF 7743E).

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