Whitley Bay, radar station

HER Number:
12553

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Whitley Bay, radar station

Place:
Whitley Bay

Map Sheet:
NZ37SW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Military Observation Site

Site Type: Specific:
Radar Station

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Site of a Second World War radar station, recorded by the Defence of Britain project, is visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs. Further associated features are also visible including a a potential searchlight battery, two short sections of trench, weapons pits, a military camp, military roads, military buidings and trackways. It was armed with No.3 Mark V radar in November 1945. It was retained as a Nucleus Force Headquarters Battery in 1946. No surface features are visible on the latest 1988 Ordnance Survey vertical photography. Now a caravan park.

Easting:
3435

Northing:
7481

Grid Reference:
NZ34357481

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2009, North East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment; NMR Monument No. 1414464; Vertical Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/40 5125 18-MAY-1948; Migrated Defence of Britain Project database record originally compiled from various sources; C S Dobinson 1996 Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery : England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, page 480