Whickham, Market Lane, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11690

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, Market Lane, barrage balloon site

Place:
Whickham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Barrage Balloon Site

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
A barrage balloon site of WW2 seen on air photographs. Lies between Garden House Cemetery and Duckpool Lane. A concentric, circular arrangement of mooring posts, approximately 22m in diameter. Site now levelled.

Easting:
2139

Northing:
6179

Grid Reference:
NZ21396179

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432144; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/35 5197 16-MAY-1948