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Archaeological Watching Brief at the former Beach Coach Station, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk |
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NAU Archaeology unpublished report series
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norfolka1-156702_1.pdf (1 MB)
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Report (in Series)
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Abstract: |
An archaeological watching brief was conducted for NPS Property Consultants Limited during groundworks associated with the construction of a new housing development on the site of the former Beach Coach Park. The former Beach Coach station was located on the site of the terminus of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway between Great Yarmouth and Sutton Bridge. However the only significant railway-related remains to survive the closure of the line and station in 1959 and the clearance of the site to allow its use as a coach park was part of an early 20th-century turntable pit. Historic mapping shows an earlier turntable which should have been present towards the southern edge of the development site, but despite groundworks in that area this feature was not identified. The turntable that was exposed had a diameter of c.19.2m and a depth of c.1.5m. It was built out of sandstone blocks with details (perhaps later additions) in brick and concrete. The turntable itself (the rotating portion which carries the rolling stock) would have originally had a length of c.17.25m. |
Author: |
S Hickling
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Publisher: |
NAU Archaeology
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Norfolk HER (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2013
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Site: |
Former Beach coach Station, Nelson Road |
County: |
Norfolk |
District: |
Great Yarmouth |
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GREAT YARMOUTH |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 652894, 308201 (Easting, Northing)
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norfolka1-156702 |
OBIB: |
Report 2871 |
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A4 paper, colour-printed, double-sided, spiral-bound;pdf
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Created Date: |
29 Oct 2021 |