NHER 27643 (Monument record) - Possible World War One hardstanding

September 2005. Norfolk NMP.
An area of paving, probably of concrete, is visible on aerial photographs (S1 to S2), between TG 5295 0547 and TG 5295 0541. Its alignment and general isolation suggests that it predates the layout of roads and land plots which surround it. It could be associated with the World War One naval air station (NHER 13631) which lay to its south; extensive areas of paving from this site were still visible in the 1940s. It does, however, lie some distance to the north of the area of the station, as shown on a map of the site (see NHER 13631 secondary file (S3)). It is also not possible to exclude the possibility that the paving relates to non military activity at the site, perhaps being a remnant of the racecourse which once occupied the area. The latter is shown on the Ordnance Survey 2nd edition map (S4). The site of the paving has now been built over.
S. Tremlett (NMP), 22 September 2005.