Longbenton, Balliol Business Park, aircraft obstructions

HER Number:
11543

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Longbenton, Balliol Business Park, aircraft obstructions

Place:
Longbenton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Defence Obstruction

Site Type: Specific:
Aircraft Obstruction

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Aircraft obstructions of WW2 mapped from air photographs taken soon after the war. Formed in a grid layout, these features lie between Salter's Lane to the west and Benton Lane to the east, in an area approximately 800m x 560m. A ditch with adjacent lines of mounds of upcast spoil. Levelled and then destroyed by the business park.

Easting:
2631

Northing:
6956

Grid Reference:
NZ26316956

Lats/Lons:

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