NHER 30780 (Monument record) - Two Second World War Home Guard stores

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Two Second World War Home Guard stores survive as extant structures and have been recorded on the ground. They are also visible on aerial photographs. Docking was a category ‘A’ nodal point during the war (NHER 69317), and various anti-invasion defences were constructed at strategic locations around the village.

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Map sheet TF73NE
Civil Parish DOCKING, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

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Two 'Home Guard Structure' pillboxes.
Good condition.
See (S1).
E. Rose (NAU) 1994.

1999.
Buildings are still shown on (S2).
B. Cushion (NLA) 20 January 1999.

October 2012 Photographic survey
Photographic survey carried out of the Home Guard stores.
C. Kolonko (HES), 22 October 2012.

October 2012.
Two rare Home Guard stores for the storage of explosives and inflammables. These buildings survive in an excellent state of preservation. Amended the description from 'World War Two Pillboxes' to 'Home Guard stores'.
C. Kolonko (HES), 22 October 2012.

September 2025. Northwest Norfolk Aerial Investigation and Mapping (AI&M) Project.
The two Second World War Home Guard shelters described above are visible as extant structures on aerial photographs, including from 1945 (S3) and 2022 (S4).
S. Tremlett (Norfolk Historic Environment Service), 8 September 2025.

  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Unpublished Document: 1995. Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey.
  • <S2> Map: Ordnance Survey. 1:2500.
  • <S3> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Various. Various. Vertical Aerial Photography from the Historic England Archive. RAF/106G/UK/378 RS 4048-4049 13-JUN-1945.
  • <S4> Vertical Aerial Photograph: Bluesky International Ltd and Getmapping Plc. unknown. Aerial Photography for Great Britain (APGB) Orthophotographs. https://www.apgb.co.uk. Bluesky International Ltd APGB Imagery TF7637 10-JUL-2022.

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Sep 8 2025 3:50PM

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