NHER 32504 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two searchlight battery

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Summary

The ruins of very rare CDL searchlight emplacement, now destroyed by cliff falls, used to defend the beach at Weybourne. A group of World War Two coastal defences were mapped near this location during the NMP from wartime photography under NHER 38625. This included the remains of this searchlight emplacement, several pillboxes and a possible underground structure. See record NHER 38625 for full details.

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Map sheet TG14SW
Civil Parish WEYBOURNE, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Ruins of very rare CDL searchlight emplacement, used to defend beach. Date 1940.
Survey Number D2-32.
Information from [1]. See record form in file.
D.Walker (NLA), July 1996.

April 2004.
No trace found, destroyed by cliff falls.
E. Rose (NLA), 13 April 2004.

May 2004. Norfolk NMP.
A group of World War Two coastal defences were mapped near this location during the NMP from wartime photography under NHER 38625. This included this searchlight emplacement, several pillboxes and a possible underground structure. See record NHER 38625 for full details.
S. Massey (NMP), 10 May 2004.

  • --- Photograph: Kent, P.. 1994. KHE 8-9.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.

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Record last edited

Nov 25 2014 10:50AM

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