Gosforth, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne J

HER Number

5499

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Gosforth, Heavy Anti Aircraft Battery Tyne J

Place

Gosforth

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Defence

Site Type: Broad

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Second World War 1939 to 1945

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne J

Easting

424700

Northing

569100

Grid Reference

NZ424700569100

Sources

<< HER 5499 >> Alan Rudd, 1986, List of 20th century defence sites on Tyneside; English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1433708; Aerial Photograph RAF 3G/TUD/UK/94 5207 29-MAR-1946; C.S. Dobinson, 1996, Twentieth Century Fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery: England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, pages 480