Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

HER Number:
11765

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, aircraft obstructions

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Aircraft Obstruction

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
Aircraft obstructions of the Second World War mapped from wartime air photographs. They surround an anti aircraft battery (HER 5501). They comprise a ditch with lines of resulting spoil heaps to either side and were arranged at right angles extending over an area of 750m north to south and 490m east to west. To the south-west (in the area of a former golf course) the obstructions were formed only by discontinous banks.

Easting:
3230

Northing:
6789

Grid Reference:
NZ32306789

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405713; Aerial Photograph RAF 4E/UK681 3423 10-FEB-1941