Community College, aircraft obstructions

HER Number

11644

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Community College, 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, on the west side of Forest Hall and east of Benton Lane, over an area of 500m x 300m. A ditch with adjacent lines of mounds of upcast spoil. Levelled and then destroyed by the school. Evidence may survive in the fields west of the college.

Easting

427150

Northing

569330

Grid Reference

NZ427150569330

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1430276; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4182 27-FEB-1946