NHER 30708 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

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Summary

A large World War Two pillbox is visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946. The pillbox is still there today and is a unique adaptation of a rectangular type 20V design. It dates to about 1940 and was part of a network of anti-invasion defences of the time. The roof is now gone.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG14SW
Civil Parish WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Pillbox.
At junction of tracks, set back from road but with views along it in two directions. Original form seems to have been two chambers in a butterfly shape, with gun loops to northeast and southwest along road. Concrete over iron reinforcing; the roof has been removed.
Now used as rubbish bins for stables.
E. Rose (NLA), 18 July 1994.

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Unique adaption of a 1940 type 20V pillbox. Roof blown off.
Very rare - the only known example.
Survey No. D2-45.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

May 2003. Norfolk NMP.
Large rectangular type 20V pillbox visible on RAF aerial photographs from 1946 (S1). The structure appears to measure 6.5m by 5.5m and is located at TG 1196 4134. It is hard to tell due to tree coverage, but the part of the roof appears to be gone by April 1946.
S. Massey (NMP), 20 May 2005.

April 2004.
Still extant.
E. Rose (NLA), 13 April 2004.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1430 4201-2 16-APR-1946.

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Record last edited

Feb 15 2012 5:46PM

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