Broad walk 2 - Soldier! Eyes front keep watch. Traditional Cache
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Broad walk 2 - Soldier! Eyes front keep watch.
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Soldier! Eyes front, keep watch!
A cache with an amazing veiw and a little bit of forgotten history.
Broad walk
This is a nice little walk between great yarmouth and acle along the river bure. The idea being you start at one end and walk this series of caches to the other end and get the bus or train back to your car. The walk is 12 miles long and took me about 5 hours today to place all the caches. So it may be worth takeing a day to do this walk. All caches have been placed with the kind permiton of the broads authority.
There is a path along the river between yarmouth and acle the only time you leave the river is stokby however when you walk through the village you will be guided back to the river and path. This series can also be done a cycle with a mountain bike. If you are on a boat you may find it hard to do this set of caches as there in no official moorings between stokby and Great yarmouth.
What is a pill box?
Pillboxes are concrete dug-in guard posts, normally equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons. The originally jocular name arose from their perceived similarity to the cylindrical and hexagonal boxes in which medical pills were once sold. They are in effect a trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.
The concrete nature of pillboxes means that they are a feature of prepared positions. They were probably first used in the Hindenburg Line. This is likely to have been the time when they acquired their incongruous English name. The Oxford English Dictionary's earliest record of the use of the word pillbox in connection with a defensive post is from 13 September 1917, after the German withdrawal onto the Hindenburg Line.
Pillboxes are often camouflaged in order to conceal their location and to maximize the element of surprise. They may be part of a trench system, form an interlocking line of defence with other pillboxes by providing covering fire to each other (defence in depth), or they may be placed to guard strategic structures such as bridges and jetties.
The French Maginot line built between the world wars consisted of a massive bunker and tunnel complex, but as most of it was below ground little could be seen from the ground level. The exception were the concrete blockhouses and pillboxes which were placed above ground to allow the garrison of the Maginot line to engage an attacking enemy.
About 28,000 pillboxes and other hardened field fortifications were constructed in England in 1940 as part of the British anti-invasion preparations of World War II. About 6,500 of these structures still survive.
Pillboxes for the Czechoslovak border fortifications were built before the Second World War in Czechoslovakia in defence against the German invasion of Czechoslovakia. None of these were actually used against its intended enemy, since the German military met no resistance when invading the country because it was effectively forced to capitulate as a result of Allies annexing the country's border areas and handing them to Germany, but some were used against the liberating Russian armies. The Japanese also made use of pillboxes in their fortifications of Iwo Jima.
Cache description.
You are looking for an unsual cache hidden by one of Norfolk coasts world war 2 pill boxes.
if truth be told I don't know much about the history of pill boxes in Norfolk or much about what this one was used for. If it was a look out, gun mount or even a search light. If anyone knows what it was used for and can shear its history please feel free to add it in the moment or message me and I can add it to discription Or if you have memories or photos please add them also well done to kittywitches for F2F
Please note!
The cache is not in the pill box it's self. So there is no need to go in and poke around.
Additional Hints
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Vs lbh svaq gur pbt. Gur unir n ybbx pybfr ol. Znlor zbir fbzr tenff.
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