Site of Second World War road barrier, Station Road, Thorpe-le-Soken (EHER 21551)

Site of a World War Two road barrier, now destroyed, Thorpe-le-Soken. It is clear that the important junction at the east end of Thorpe-le-Soken, where Station Road, High Street, Landermere Road and Abbey Street all meet, was heavily defended during World War Two.

It is clear that the important junction at the east end of Thorpe-le-Soken, where Station Road, High Street, Landermere Road and Abbey Street all meet, was heavily defended during World War Two. Sources include contemporary records, local memory, ground survey and 1946 aerial photographs. <1> <2> <3> Station Road was cut by a road barrier which was anchored on its east side by anti-tank pimples in both the forecourt of the forge (now a works building) and alongside this the front garden of The Corner House (still extant), across the road to the wooded grounds on the west side. Nothing of the barrier appears to survive now. <4>