NHER 43313 (Monument record) - World War Two High Frequency Direction Finding Station, Hopton-on-Sea

December 2006. Norfolk NMP.
A World War Two High Frequency Direction Finding (HF/DF) Station is visible on aerial photographs on the Gorleston Golf Links, Hopton-on-Sea (S1-S2). The site is centred on TG 5285 0165 and consists of tapered tower on top of an octagonal base. This structure would probably have formed part of the ‘Coastal System’ of direction finding stations that helped lost aircraft return to base and to plot the location of mayday signals. It may also have played a role in the air and sea rescue activities along the coast. Another HFDF site is located 2.5km to the northwest (NHER 42232). This structure on the Golf Links is located within a much wider network of defences, which consists of a long distance anti-tank ditch, barbed wire obstruction, roadblocks, pillboxes and gun emplacements, see NHER 42262 for details.

The octagonal base is 7m across and has a tapered tower on top, which appears to have wires or tethers running from the base to the top of the tower. To the immediate west of the tower is a small rectangular structure, 1m by 1.5m. This structure gets built in-between 1941 and July 1944 and is still standing in 1955.
S. Massey (NMP), 04 December 2006.