Whitburn, Lizard Lane, WWI Command Post

HER Number:
1835

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitburn, Lizard Lane, WWI Command Post

Place:
Whitburn

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Command Post

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
First World War command post for former gun turret at Marsden. Badly built at the end of WW1. The battery site has been fully quarried away.

Easting:
402

Northing:
635

Grid Reference:
NZ402635

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1835 >> A.Rudd, Defence of Britain Project, 1996, List of Known Fortifications in Tyne and Wear