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

Anti Aircraft Defence Site

Site Type: Specific

Anti Aircraft Battery

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

20th Century 1901 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Site of heavy anti aircraft battery - Tyne Y

Easting

420820

Northing

566220

Grid Reference

NZ420820566220

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