Town Moor, radar station
Town Moor, radar station
HER Number
11706
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Town Moor, radar station
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26NW
Class
Defence
Site Type: Broad
Military Observation Site
Site Type: Specific
Radar Station
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Second World War 1939 to 1945
Form of Evidence
Destroyed Monument
Description
Remnants of a radar station of the Second World War period seen and mapped from air photographs. The central feature was a gun-laying mat. The radar station would have been associated with an anti aircraft battery which must have been destroyed by open cast coal mining at the end of the War. The radar station was destroyed during reinstatement following the coal mining.
Easting
424290
Northing
566480
Grid Reference
NZ424290566480
Sources
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1433716; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5200 29-MAR-1946