East Howdon, barrage balloon site

HER Number

11768

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

East Howdon, barrage balloon site

Place

Howdon

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Barrage Balloon Site

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

A barrage balloon site mapped from air photographs of 1945. A group of three circular mooring sites each 28m in diameter and two associated buildings to the south-east.

Easting

433530

Northing

566460

Grid Reference

NZ433530566460

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405900; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/8 5016 20-DEC-1945