NHER 27460 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two pillbox at Martham

January 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two pillbox is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), centred at TG 4586 1876. The hexagonal, Type 22 pillbox is first visible on aerial photographs taken in 1946 but was almost certainly constructed some time before this. It stood at the junction where the road from Winterton (to the east) forks before entering Martham village. It was presumably erected as a defence against an invasion force landing at Winterton Gap. In 1946 (S1) it appears to have had some kind of ancillary structure attached to its south side, perhaps a form of camouflage. Later aerial photographs indicate that the pillbox has since been demolished.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 26 January 2006.