Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

HER Number

11671

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

Place

Wallsend

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

Levelled Earthwork

Description

Lines of aircraft obstructions of WW2 mapped from air photographs of wartime period. These lie 100m north-east of an anti aircraft gun battery. The aircraft obstructions are arranged at right angles in a grid formation, in an area 250m x 250m and formed by a ditch with adjacent lines of upcast spoil. The features have since been levelled.

Easting

429480

Northing

569410

Grid Reference

NZ429480569410

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1429942; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/LA/101 1080 17-JAN-1945