NHER 52473 (Monument record) - World War Two pillbox

This pillbox was previously recorded under NHER 9889.

October 1977. Visit.
Grid ref slightly corrected (see NHER 9889). Pillbox is polygonal brick.
E. Rose (NAU), 26 October 1977.
Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 26 August 2014.

March 1995. Defensive Structures Survey No. M4-15.
Common type 22 pillbox standing in field facing northwest. Unusual blast wall. Date 1940.
Information from (S1) and (S2).
D. Walker (NAU), July, 1996.
Amended H. Hamilton (HES), 26 August 2014.

November 2009. Norfolk NMP.
The site of a type 22 World War Two pillbox and associated defences, possibly including a barbed wire obstruction and a weapons pit, is visible on aerial photographs (S3-S4) to the south of Caistor Lane. The site is centred on TG 2522 0321 and is located to the north of the Stoke Holy Cross radar station (NHER 14227 and NHER 32538) and would have acted as part of the defensive network around it.
The type 22 pillbox is located at TG 2521 0324 and was possibly surrounded by a former barbed wire obstruction, the line of which appears to be visible as a line of differential snow cover marking the line of a former wire fence or possibly an infilled ditch, although a fence line seems the most likely interpretation. Tramlines in the field make it hard to discern the western line of this enclosure or fence. A weapons pit or similar feature may also have been positioned along the line of this barrier at TG 2528 0320. A base of a former structure, 8m by 5.5m, is also visible at the side of the field.
S. Horlock (NMP), 04 November 2009.

November 2025. HER Enhancement: Forestry Commission Project K.
The above pillbox is visible as an extant structure on recent (2025) aerial photographs (S5).
J. Powell (Norfolk County Council Environment Service), 05 November 2025