East Boldon, anti-aircraft battery

HER Number

11692

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

East Boldon, anti-aircraft battery

Place

East Boldon

Map Sheet

NZ36SE

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Levelled Earthwork

Description

An anti-aircraft battery of WW2 mapped from wartime photography as earthworks of four gun-emplacements and a command post. The form of the gun-emplacements suggests they may be later than 1943 in date. Now levelled.

Easting

437680

Northing

560320

Grid Reference

NZ437680560320

Sources

English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1403235; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1372 5119 04-APR-1946