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

Coastal Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Coastal Battery Command Post

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

First World War 1914 to 1918

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

440200

Northing

563500

Grid Reference

NZ440200563500

Sources

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