Brancaster Beach

An Emergency Coastal Defence Battery was placed here in 1940 and was built into the sand dunes that now border onto the modern golf course. Although parts of the concrete structures are still visible, the buildings are now subsumed within the sand and cannot be entered. The area around the golf course clubhouse contains two pillboxes. The first is a unique hexagonal design and would have had an excellent field of fire over the whole beach. This was probably based on a pre-war design, but as built, it seems to be unique. The second is partly covered in vegetation, but is a pillbox for a medium machine gun that would have been used to enfilade the beach. It is otherwise unremarkable, but it does show clearly how corrugated iron was used as shuttering during the construction.

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