Monument record MDO29287 - Second World War HAA Battery, Poole HH5, Whitecliff Harbourside Park, Poole

Site of Second World war heavy anti aircraft battery at Parkestone Bay. It was armed with four 3.7-inch mobile guns and GL Mark IA radar in 1942. <1>

A cluster of seven buldings with associated trackways, banks and walls, possibly the remains of a Second World War Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery, is visible on aerial photographs <2> taken in 1945 at Whitecliff Harbourside Park. The site is not visible on the most recent comprehensive aerial imagery available to the project <3>. This site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

<1> Dobinson, C S, 1996, Twentieth century fortifications in England, volume 1. Anti-aircraft artillery: England's air defence gunsites, 1914-46, 438 (Monograph). SDO11874.

<2> Royal Air Force, 03-MAR-1945, RAF/544/106G/LA 163 4011-15 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12918.

<3> XX-XXX-2009, Google Earth (Aerial Photograph). SDO12705.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1473231 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 5 2023 3:39PM