Tyne and Wear HER(11644): Longbenton, Community College, aircraft obstructions - Details
11644
N Tyneside
Longbenton, Community College, aircraft obstructions
Longbenton
NZ26NE
Defence
Defence Obstruction
Aircraft Obstruction
Modern
C20
Destroyed Monument
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.
2715
6933
NZ27156933
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1430276; Aerial Photograph RAF 106G/UK/1193 4182 27-FEB-1946