NHER 18036 (Monument record) - World War Two Type 22 pillbox, Meeting House Hill

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Summary

A World War Two Type 22 pillbox survives as an extant structure by the roadside at Meeting House Hill. It is visible on aerial photographs from 1946 and 1971 and is also depicted by modern Ordnance Survey mapping. It would have formed part of the line of defences established along the River Ant during World War Two. By 1992 it had been painted cream and converted to an extension of the adjacent house

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG32NW
Civil Parish WORSTEAD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

East of almshouses.
Pill box; octagonal or polygonal, concrete facing over brick.
E. Rose (NAU), 14 April 1982.

1992.
Now painted cream and converted to extension of adjacent house
E. Rose (NAU), 2 March 1992

See record form in file by source [1], who adds:
Common, type 22 pillbox, painted buff and attached to garage.
Loops blocked. Date 1940.
Survey No. H2-5 (S1).
D. Walker (NLA) July 1996.

November 2006. Norfolk NMP.
The World War Two Type 22 pillbox described above is visible as an extant structure on aerial photographs (S2)-(S4), centred at TG 3056 2828. It is also depicted by modern Ordnance Survey 1:2500 mapping. It would have formed part of the line of defences that was erected along the River Ant stop line, as described in Kent (1988) (S3).
S. Tremlett (NMP), 23 November 2006.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Recording Form: [various]. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey Recording Form. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 3080-1 09-JUL-1946 (NHER TG 3028A-B).
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Ordnance Survey. 1971. OS/71088 177-8 21-APR-1971.
  • <S4> Publication: Kent, P. 1988. Fortifications of East Anglia. p 190.

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Record last edited

Nov 30 2012 10:07AM

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