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Type 24 pillbox, facing east covering low valley and anti tank ditch. Fitted with Turnbull mounts.
(Source: Field Visit 1994/03)
Pillbox. Shown on map of post-war coastal defence survey.
(Source: Document 1950)
Documentary source. Listed as a type 350/40. Cassini ref. 588616.
(Source: Document 1941/05/30)
Hexagonal structure plotted from OD 1:2500 sheet.
(Source: Map 1972)
Good example of a type 24 brick-shuttered pillbox. Faces E. No interior access: doorway blocked by an iron grill. On public land on cliff top.
(Source: Field Visit 2002/06/27)


      

        Type of site
        PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24)
      

      

        Location
        Set back from the cliff edge, E of Weybourne Hope.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Weybourne, Norfolk, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TG 12679 43499
             (Scale: 1:2500
              , 1972)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Good

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Kent, Peter (Norfolk Defensive Structures Survey)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Norfolk coast defences - Coastal crust defences 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - sketch map of site. Additional SRF by Geoff Farthing

      

      

        Photographs
        
View of PILLBOX (TYPE FW3/24) - S0001053
         

     (4) - one external view and one internal view and 2 general views including pillbox at TG 12684350  		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0001053

      

      

        Associated Identifier
        
            Norfolk SMR (ref: 19440)
        
      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 Pillboxes: A Study of UK Defences

             1995 Norfolks Fixed Defences in the Two World Wars

             1950 Survey of Coastal Defence Works (1947-1950)

             1941/05/30 Progress Report on Pillboxes

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

            Field Visit, In 1994/03 

            Field Visit, On 1996/05/26 

            Field Visit, On 2002/06/27 

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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