Background: This site is a conserved area that was actively used for air defense during WW2. Per the conservation document here, this site was part of the Inner Artillery Zone, and is the only remaining 8-gun site. Most sites were apparently located in otherwise developed land, such as parks, and were dismantled and returned to their former usage after the war. This location's siting in a disused field probably helped preserve it all these years. This site was actually used, unlike some other WW2 fortifications. Apparently it was in use for 76 consecutive days during the blitz.
Explore: The biggest challenge to entry here was thigh-high grass I had to walk through. I wore shorts and definitely got a bit scratched up. There is no fencing to the vacant field if you enter from the south, and the site itself does have fencing but the entry gate is wide open.
Much of the site looks like this. Very overgrown, not much physically present except concrete structures.
I believe these circular areas were the actual anti-aircraft sites.
There was some kind of operational building as well. What's this blocking the entrance? Anyone know if its some kind of machine gun stand?
Explore: The biggest challenge to entry here was thigh-high grass I had to walk through. I wore shorts and definitely got a bit scratched up. There is no fencing to the vacant field if you enter from the south, and the site itself does have fencing but the entry gate is wide open.
Much of the site looks like this. Very overgrown, not much physically present except concrete structures.
I believe these circular areas were the actual anti-aircraft sites.
There was some kind of operational building as well. What's this blocking the entrance? Anyone know if its some kind of machine gun stand?
