NHER 20055 (Monument record) - World War Two tank trap

Tank Trap.
A Row of concrete blocks installed across a pasture east of the demolished Billingford Bridge.
This tank trap is marked on new OS surveys, and its location has been confirmed by D. Wicks (NAU).
E. Rose (NAU) 10 February 1984.

1992. Field Observation.
The tank trap consists of 24 quite common anti-tank blocks, dated about 1940.
Information from (S1), Survey No. F3-2.
D. Walker (NLA), July 1996.

NGR corrected from original TG 0055 2010.
M. Horlock (NLA), 27 March 2003.

February 2007. Norfolk NMP.
The previously recorded rows of anti-tank cubes are visible on aerial photographs dating to 1946 (S2-S3). Later photography (S4) indicates that some of the cubes have been moved from their original positions. This tank trap along with the two spigot mortar emplacements to the west (NHER 32447-8) would have defended the road and river crossings at Billingford/North Elmham parish border.
S. Massey (NMP), 29 February 2008.

April 2012. Site visit and part digital photo record.
Twenty-four blocks present, as shown on the mapping, although one in the middle has slumped and that at the west end has toppled over. With recent clearances, they are now far more visible from the B1145.
D. Gurney (HES), 11 April 2012.