East Howdon, barrage balloon site

HER Number:
11768

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
East Howdon, barrage balloon site

Place:
Howdon

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific:
Barrage Balloon Site

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Destroyed Monument

Description:
A barrage balloon site mapped from air photographs of 1945. A group of three circular mooring sites each 28m in diameter and two associated buildings to the south-east.

Easting:
3353

Northing:
6646

Grid Reference:
NZ33536646

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1405900; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/8 5016 20-DEC-1945