NHER 33742 (Monument record) - World War Two searchlight at Abbey Farm

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Summary

Two circular structures can be seen on a World War Two air photograph. These are probably the embanked depressions of an anti aircraft battery or possibly a searchlight. A newspaper report records a 'World War Two searchlight camp at Abbey Farm, Little Walsingham, where the regimental insignia was cut in the grass'. The insignia can't be seen on the aerial photograph.

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Map sheet TF93NW
Civil Parish WALSINGHAM, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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June 1946. RAF air photograph.
Shows two circular structures with faint signs of smaller structures adjacent. Probably embanked depressions of anti aircraft battery, around 12m diameter, or possibly searchlight.
B. Cushion (NLA) 30 July 1998.

Mentioned in (S1) as a 'world war two searchlight camp at Abbey Farm, Little Walsingham, where the regimental insignia was cut in the grass'. No such insignia is visible on the aerial photograph.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 May 2005.

  • --- Aerial Photograph: TF 93/TF 9335/B.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Newspaper Article: 2005. Eastern Daily Press. 22 October.

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Record last edited

Jun 30 2022 8:21AM

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