NHER 36875 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two searchlight battery

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Summary

Aerial photographs taken in the 1940s show a possible World War Two searchlight battery and associated buildings.

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Map sheet TF62NW
Civil Parish NORTH WOOTTON, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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1940 and 1944. RAF air photography.
A possible World War Two searchlight site is visible in 1940 at TF 6311 2722, just north of Estuary Farm, comprising two circular emplacements, a probable light anti-aircraft emplacements and huts.
Its subsequent history is not clear, but a pillbox is visible in the remains of one of the emplacements in 1944.
A. Miller (Suffolk County Council NMP), 30 June 2000.

  • --- Map: NMP Plot.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1940. TF 62271-3 (NMR).
  • --- Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1944. RAF 106G/LA67 Frames 4154-5 (NMR).

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Record last edited

May 27 2014 4:31PM

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