Balliol Business Park, aircraft obstructions

Balliol Business Park, aircraft obstructions

HER Number
11543
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Balliol Business Park, aircraft obstructions
Place
Longbenton
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Defence Obstruction
Site Type: Specific
Aircraft Obstruction
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Form of Evidence
Destroyed Monument
Description
Aircraft obstructions of WW2 mapped from air photographs taken soon after the war. Formed in a grid layout, these features lie between Salter's Lane to the west and Benton Lane to the east, in an area approximately 800m x 560m. A ditch with adjacent lines of mounds of upcast spoil. Levelled and then destroyed by the business park.
Easting
426310
Northing
569560
Grid Reference
NZ426310569560
Sources
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1430276; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4182 27-FEB-1946