Wallsend, Rising Sun Country Park, bomb craters

HER Number

11673

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wallsend, Rising Sun Country Park, bomb craters

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Unassigned

Site Type: Broad

Bomb Crater

Site Type: Specific

Bomb Crater

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

Three bomb craters probably from WW2, seen on aerial photographs immediately after the war. They lie only 660m north-east of a former anti aircraft battery. The craters have been levelled.

Easting

429970

Northing

569430

Grid Reference

NZ429970569430

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1429939; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4178 27-FEB-1946