NHER 38784 (Monument record) - Site of World War Two defences

September 2004. Norfolk NMP.
World War Two defences including barbed wire and a slit trench are visible on aerial photographs along the north side of Happisburgh churchyard ((S1) to (S3)). These defences were centred around TG 3791 3123. A slit trench was located along the north side of Happisburgh churchyard. It extended for 100m between TG 3788 3120 and TG 3798 3120 just inside the churchyard boundary and had earth banks on its north and south sides. It had been constructed by September 1940 (S1) and was still visible in 1941 and 1943 ((S2) to (S3)). Additional barbed wire defences had been added in the field to the north of the churchyard by January 1943 and a weapons pit placed at TG 3788 3127 (S3). These extra defences may have been added because an aerial associated with the radar station (NHER 14147) was mounted on the church tower in 1942 (see NHER 7091).
J. Albone (NMP), 7 September 2004.