Blakelaw, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne Y

HER Number:
5513

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Blakelaw, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne Y

Place:
Blakelaw

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Defence

Site Type: Broad:
Battery

Site Type: Specific:
Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne Y

Easting:
2082

Northing:
6622

Grid Reference:
NZ20826622

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5513 >> Alan Rudd, 1986, List of 20th century defence sites on Tyneside; English Heritage, 2008, Hadrian's Wall National Mapping Programme, 1433695; C.S. Dobinson, 1996, Twentieth Century fortifications in England, Vol 1, Anti Aircraft Artillery: England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, page 480