NHER 34647 (Monument record) - A small group of World War Two military structures

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Summary

A small group of World War Two military structures, mainly nissen huts, and a possible gun emplacement or pillbox, are visible on aerial photographs to south of Elderbush Lane, Catfield. An air raid shelter has also been identified at this site on Ordnance Survey maps.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG32SE
Civil Parish CATFIELD, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

Air Raid Shelter.
Information from Norfolk Property Services via plan in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 1 September 1999.

September 2004
Grid reference corrected from TG38903022 to TG38902022.
J. Albone (NMP), 2 September 2004

The central point of this site has been amended to TG 3888 2036.

March 2007. Norfolk NMP.
A small group of World War Two military structures, mainly nissen huts, and a possible gun emplacement or pillbox, are visible on aerial photographs to south of Elderbush Lane, Catfield (S2). The site is centred on TG 3888 2036.

One of the remaining structures has been interpreted as an air raid shelter. The group of structures in 1946 has the appearance of an ancillary part of the military accommodation camp for Ludham airfield (NHER 49336), located to the immediate south. It is possible that the air raid shelter marked on the map (S1) is a sunken or camouflaged structure not visible in 1946. At the western end of the group is a polygonal structure, 6m across, which has the appearance of being a gun emplacement or pillbox, although this is not certain.
S. Massey (NMP), 30 March 2007.

  • <S1> Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S2> Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1634 2061-3 09-JUL-1946 (NMR).

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Record last edited

Oct 11 2011 2:43PM

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