NHER 16799 (Monument record) - World War Two Vickers Machine Gun pillbox at Thimble Hill

By garage.
Pill box, set in bank, with very thick blast wall.
Approximate position from Pillbox Survey.
E. Rose (NAU), 25 November 1980.

Location confirmed on ground. Low red-brick octagonal.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 January 1981.

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Rare 1940/41 type 20V. Heavy machine gun post.
Survey No. H2-16.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

May 2007. Norfolk NMP.
NMP mapping has led to the alteration of the central grid reference of the site from TG 3468 2449 to TG 3465 2449.

The World War Two pillbox described above was a Vickers Machine Gun pillbox (see NMR TG 32 NW 30). It is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S1)-(S3), and is also depicted by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping. Contrary to the description given above it is rectangular in plan, although its two front corners are chamfered. A substantial blast wall is visible on its western side. It was sited to face northwards towards Wayford Bridge.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 May 2007.