SNN112947 - Defence of Britain
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| Type | Archive |
|---|---|
| Title | Defence of Britain |
| Author/Originator | Historic England |
| Date/Year | Undated |
Abstract/Summary
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Description
This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate.Box files containing the record sheets gathered from participants in the Defence of Britain Project. The project recorded, with the help of volunteers, the remains of military structures in Britain. The collection is arranged by county and split between anti-invasion and non anti-invasion defences. The record sheets record the visible structures and include location details, structure type and purpose and include photographs.
Location
Historic England
Referenced Monuments (248)
- 1294/1/23 'M & E' Plinth (Monument)
- 9683/0/1 A361 Road Block, Banbury (Monument)
- 8646/0/1 A422 Road Block (WWII) (Monument)
- 1160/0/406 Abington Community Centre (Building)
- 1294/1/15 Accommodation Building Incorporating Stanton Shelter (Building)
- 3980/0/38 Air Raid Shelter (Monument)
- 638/0/95 Air Raid shelter in grounds of Former Abbey School (Monument)
- 6828/0/1 Air Raid Shelter, Islip Furnace (Building)
- 1295/1/2 Aircraft Hanger (J-Type) (Building)
- 1294/1/8 Aircrew Sleeping Shelter at Kingscliffe Airfield (Building)
- 6731/0/1 Airfield Bombing Decoy Q97a (Monument)
- 8630/1/9 Airfield Control Tower, Silverstone Airfield (Building)
- 8445/3/2 Anti-Aircraft Gun Pit (Monument)
- 1624/0/49 Anti-tank (road block) cylinders, A6 (Monument)
- 3884/0/88 Anti-tank cylinders, London Road/Croyland Road crossroads (Monument)
- 2938/1/1 Barby Corn Mill (& WWII Home Guard Observation Post) (Building)
- 1160/392/1 Barracks Buildings (Building)
- 1294/1/2 Battle HQ at Kingscliffe Airfield (Building)
- 1292/4 Benefield ROC Site (Cold War) (Monument)
- 8627/1/2 Boughton Cold Store Road Block (Monument)
- 8627/1/1 Boughton Crossing Road Block (Monument)
- 7966/0/1 Brafield Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 6461/0/1 C20th ROC Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 7946/0/1 C20th Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 8540/1/30 Cantilevered type WWII pillbox (Monument)
- 8540/1/31 Cantilevered type WWII pillbox (Monument)
- 7051/1 Chipping Warden WWII Airfield (Monument)
- 1160/0/379 Civilian Air Raid Shelter at 58 Broadmead Avenue (Building)
- 9201/0/1 Clay Hills Searchlight Site (Monument)
- 6455/0/1 Clipston ROC Post (Monument)
- 2129/2/3 Coachhouse, Cogenhoe Rectory (WWII Guard-Room) (Building)
- 6463/1 Cogenhoe Royal Observer Corps Site (Monument)
- 7146/0/1 Concrete Cylinders From A Former WWII Road Block (Find Spot)
- 1294/1/3 Control Tower at Kingscliffe Airfield (Building)
- 8540/1/19 Defended Battle HQ Site (Monument)
- 86/1/34 Defensive look-out post/pillbox (Monument)
- 8672/1/1 Drill Hall Clare Street (Monument)
- 2416/17/1 Drill Hall, Benefield Road (Building)
- 1294/1/18 Dual Defensive (LAA) Position (Monument)
- 1294/1/21 Dual Defensive (LAA) Positions (Monument)
- 8510/0/1 Duddington ROC Observer Post (Monument)
- 1294/1/17 E-Type Fighter Pen (Building)
- 1294/1/20 E-type fighter pen, Kings Cliffe Airfield (Monument)
- 7658/0/1 East Carlton Searchlight Battery, west of Wire Lane (Monument)
- 7457/0/1 Ex-situ WWII road block, Hill Top Road (Monument)
- 1160/469/2 Factory Air Raid Shelter (Rear of 34-38 Talbot Street) (Building)
- 1294/1/14 FC 'Mushroom' Pillbox (Building)
- 1294/1/13 FC 'Mushroom' Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/1/11 Firing range, Sywell Airfield (Monument)
- 8665/1 First World War Prisoner of War Camp, Rothwell (Monument)
- 780/2/1 Flore House (Building)
- 3738/0/11 Former Fire Station (Building)
- 1017/5 Former WWII Camp (Re-Used by The Land Army) (Monument)
- 8634/1/1 Hardingstone Lane Road Block (Monument)
- 8667/1/1 Home Guard Ammo Stores, Bulwick Rectory (Monument)
- 2707/0/2 Home Guard Shelter/ Wardens Post (Building)
- 7198/169/1 Home Guard Store, Lower Street (Monument)
- 8648/0/1 Kettering A6003 Road Block (Monument)
- 8615/1/1 Kettering Road, Road Block at Manfield Hospital (Monument)
- 1294/1 Kings Cliffe WWII Airfield (Monument)
- 7051/1/7 Light AA Installation (Building)
- 8619/0/1 London Road/Hardingstone Turn Road Block (Monument)
- 9043/0/1 Mill Farm Searchlight Site (Monument)
- 1160/467/1 Mounts Police Station and Magistrates Court, Campbell Square (& Site of WWII Keep) (Building)
- 8136/1/1 Mushroom FC Construction Pillbox, RAF Croughton (Building)
- 6458/0/1 Original ROC Monitoring Post at East Haddon (Monument)
- 1294/1/16 PBX (Military Telephone Exchange) & Adjoining Latrine Block (Building)
- 1294/1/45 Pickett Hamilton Fort, King's Cliffe Airfield (Monument)
- 1294/1/5 Pillbox at Kingscliffe Airfield (Building)
- 1294/1/6 Pillbox at Kingscliffe Airfield (Monument)
- 8115/1/18 Pillbox, Brigstock Camp (Monument)
- 8115/1/20 Pillbox, Brigstock Camp (Monument)
- 8115/1/19 Pillbox, Brigstock Camp (Monument)
- 9035/1/2 Pillbox, Easton/Collyweston (Monument)
- 1295/1/27 Pillbox, Polebrook Airfield (Building)
- 1295/1/14 Polebrook Airfield Battle HQ (Building)
- 1295/1 Polebrook/Hemington Airfield (Monument)
- 7051/2 Possible Battle Headquarters (Monument)
- 1160/326/1 Possible First World War Cavalry Barracks (Building)
- 7966/0/2 Possible Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 1301/0/89 Possible WWII Air Raid Shelter (Monument)
- 8120/1 Possible WWII Ammunition Storage (Monument)
- 8564/2 Possible WWII Anti-Aircraft Battery or Turret Trainer (Monument)
- 7456/0/1 Possible WWII Road Block, Hill Top Road (Monument)
- 7455/0/1 Possible WWII Road Block, Hill Top Road (Monument)
- 4538/0/10 Possible WWII roadblock (Monument)
- 8629/1 Preston Capes bombing range (Monument)
- 7384/1/3 Probable Post Medieval Milestone (Building)
- 1295/1/13 Probable WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8136/1 RAF Croughton (Monument)
- 7059/1 RAF Greatworth Wireless Transmission Station (Monument)
- 6514/0/1 Re-used WWII anti-tank cylinders (Monument)
- 8676/0/1 Re-Used WWII Concrete Road Blocks, Brafield Stadium (Monument)
- 3884/0/86 Re-used WWII road block cylinders (Monument)
- 4072/2/1 Remains of Windmill (Building)
- 8614/1/1 Road Block, Boughton Green Road (Monument)
- 8638/1/1 Road Block, Wellingborough Road (Monument)
- 6467/1/1 ROC Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 6457/0/1 ROC Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 6469/1/1 ROC Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 6460/0/1 ROC Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 6459/0/1 ROC Monitoring Post, east of Blisworth Road (Monument)
- 1295/3/1 ROC Monitoring Post, Polebrook Airfield (Monument)
- 6470/0/1 ROC Monitoring Post, Ringstead (Monument)
- 6462/1/1 ROC Monitoring Post, The Old Farm (Building)
- 6465/0/1 ROC monitoring post, Wellingborough Road Rugby Club (Monument)
- 6456/0/1 Royal Observer Corps Monitoring Post (Monument)
- 8540/1/32 Seagull trenches (Monument)
- 8136/1/2 Seagull Trenches (x2), RAF Croughton (Monument)
- 7967/1/5 Searchlight Battery at Northampton Town & County School (Monument)
- 7971/0/1 Searchlight Battery, Gayton (Monument)
- 9007/1/1 Silverstone Mill (Building)
- 638/0/112 Site of destroyed WWII air raid shelter (Monument)
- 17/0/9 Site of former WWII air raid shelters (Monument)
- 8633/0/1 Site of WWII Road Block, Newport Pagnell Road (Monument)
- 1294/1/46 Sleeping Shelter, Kingscliffe Airfield (Building)
- 8617/1/1 South Bridge Road Block/Defended Locality (Monument)
- 8631/0/1 Springhill Farm WWII Road Block (A508) (Monument)
- 8674/1/1 St Peter's Bridge Road Block/Defended Locality (Monument)
- 8445/1/17 Stanton air-raid shelter, Sywell Airfield (Building)
- 1294/1/7 Static Water Tank at Kingscliffe Airfield (Monument)
- 8445/1 Sywell Airfield (Monument)
- 396/5/1 The Mill (Building)
- 638/12/1 The Moot Hall, Market Square (Building)
- 8668/1 Thrapston Army Camp (Monument)
- 8616/0/1 Trumpet Inn Road Block (WWII) (Monument)
- 8141/0/2 Underground ROC Post (Monument)
- 8511/0/1 Upton WWII/Cold War ROC Observation Post (Monument)
- 1297/1/2 USAAF Operations Building (Building)
- 1294/1/22 V.H.F. Direction Finding or radar station, north of the King's Cliffe to Wansford Road (Building)
- 8445/3/1 Vicarage Barn (WWII Battle HQ for Sywell Aerodrome) (Building)
- 8649/0/1 Weldon Road Block (Monument)
- 9795 Wellingborough searchlight battery, south of Wellingborough Grange Farm (Monument)
- 8657/0/1 West Haddon Road Block (Monument)
- 2128/0/14 Whiston House (Building)
- 8445/3/22 World War II pillbox, Sywell Airfield (Building)
- 7123/1/1 WW2 pillbox, L&H Polymers (Building)
- 1013 WW2 Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7094/0/1 WWII & Cold War Military Site (P3 No.12 Bedford Group Royal Observer Corps Post) (Building)
- 1160/0/405 WWII Air Raid Shelter (Building)
- 8382/0/3 WWII Air Raid Shelter (Building)
- 7125/0/1 WWII Air Raid Shelter on Grand Union Canal (Building)
- 638/0/98 WWII air raid shelter, Church Walk (Monument)
- 3533/0/1 WWII Air Raid Shelter, Wilford Road (Building)
- 8611/0/1 WWII Aircraft Obstruction, A428 (Monument)
- 8445/3/11 WWII Anti-Aircraft Battery (Monument)
- 8445/3/12 WWII Anti-Aircraft Battery (Monument)
- 8445/3/13 WWII Anti-Aircraft post (Monument)
- 8445/3/10 WWII Anti-Aircraft post (Monument)
- 7967/1 WWII Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7436/0/1 WWII Anti-Tank Blocks (Monument)
- 7136/0/1 WWII Army Bombing Decoy (Probably For Weedon Depot) (Monument)
- 1291/1/3 WWII Base Operations Building, Grafton Underwood Airfield (Building)
- 1291/1/2 WWII Battle Headquarters, Grafton Underwood Airfield (Monument)
- 8136/1/9 WWII Battle Headquarters, RAF Croughton (Monument)
- 86/1/19 WWII Defensive Look-Out Post (Monument)
- 1294/1/4 WWII Fuel Compound (Building)
- 8101/0/1 WWII Gun Post (Monument)
- 8382/0/4 WWII Gunpost (Monument)
- 8619/0/2 WWII Loopholed Wall, Delapre Wood (Building)
- 8575/1 WWII Military Depot, Castle Ashby (Monument)
- 8124/0/1 WWII Observation Post (Monument)
- 1291/1/5 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/3/4 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/3/7 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/3/3 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/3/9 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8445/3/14 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 7051/1/10 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 7051/1/10 WWII Pillbox (Building)
- 8540/1/28 WWII pillbox and observation post (Monument)
- 8540/1/20 WWII pillbox, Forceleap Copse (Monument)
- 1291/1/15 WWII Pillbox, Grafton Underwood Airfield (Building)
- 6789/0/1 WWII Pillbox, Harringworth Road (Building)
- 8540/1/29 WWII pillbox, Hinton in the Hedges Airfield (Building)
- 8540/1/25 WWII Pillbox, Hinton in the Hedges Airfield (Building)
- 7159/1/1 WWII Pillbox, Nunn Mills (Building)
- 1295/1/11 WWII Pillbox, Polebrook Airfield (Building)
- 1295/1/12 WWII Pillbox, Polebrook Airfield (Building)
- 86/1/18 WWII Pillbox, Royal Ordnance Depot (Building)
- 8445/3/6 WWII Pillbox, Sywell Aerodrome (Building)
- 8445/3/5 WWII Pillbox, Sywell Airfield (Building)
- 7159/1/2 WWII Pillbox, west bank of River Nene (Building)
- 1291/1/4 WWII Pillbox/MG Post (Building)
- 8534/1 WWII PoW Camp, Grendon (Monument)
- 8573/1/1 WWII Rifle Range, Whiston Pits (Monument)
- 8675/1/1 WWII road block (Monument)
- 8662/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8632/1/2 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8632/1/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8632/1/3 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8632/1/4 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8637/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8663/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8660/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8658/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8445/3/16 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8445/3/17 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8445/3/18 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8445/3/15 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8654/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8661/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8628/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8659/0/1 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 9029/0/3 WWII Road Block (Monument)
- 8625/1/1 WWII Road Block at Dallington Village (Monument)
- 8643/0/1 WWII Road Block, A43 at Weekley (Monument)
- 8650/0/1 WWII Road Block, A605 (Monument)
- 8641/0/1 WWII Road Block, Barton Seagrave to Weekley Road (Monument)
- 8618/1/1 WWII Road Block, Billing Road (Monument)
- 8647/0/1 WWII Road Block, Chacombe Road (Monument)
- 8635/0/1 WWII Road Block, Duston Road (Monument)
- 8639/0/1 WWII Road Block, Geddington (Monument)
- 8613/1/1 WWII Road Block, Harborough Road (Monument)
- 8626/1/1 WWII Road Block, Kingsthorpe Railway Bridge (Monument)
- 8653/0/1 WWII Road Block, London Road (Monument)
- 8655/0/1 WWII Road Block, Northampton Road (Monument)
- 8624/1/1 WWII Road Block, Old Bants Lane (Monument)
- 8644/0/1 WWII Road Block, Overthorpe Road (Monument)
- 8621/0/1 WWII Road Block, Rothersthorpe Road (Monument)
- 8656/0/1 WWII Road Block, Stoke Bruerne canal bridge (Monument)
- 8620/0/1 WWII Road Block, Towcester Road (Monument)
- 8640/0/1 WWII Road Block, Uppingham Road (Monument)
- 8636/0/1 WWII Road Block, Upton Road (Monument)
- 8642/0/1 WWII Road Block, Warkton Road (Monument)
- 8622/1/1 WWII Road Block, Weedon Road (Monument)
- 8643/0/2 WWII Road Block, Weekley Village (Monument)
- 8612/0/1 WWII Road Block, Welford Road (Monument)
- 2789/0/1 WWII roadblock cylinders and rails (Monument)
- 7965/0/1 WWII Searchlight (Monument)
- 7964/0/1 WWII Searchlight (Monument)
- 9200/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (25621 Dungee Barn) (Monument)
- 7962/0/1 WWII searchlight battery (Monument)
- 7969/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7968/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 4426/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 8666/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7961/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7963/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7431/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7970/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 7949/0/1 WWII Searchlight Battery (Monument)
- 3334/1 WWII Searchlight Battery, Potters Clay (Monument)
- 3334 WWII Searchlight battery, south-west of New Hay Farm (Monument)
- 1294/1/24 WWII Sleeping Accommodation With Anti-Aircraft Gun Post on Roof (Building)
- 8564/1/1 WWII Slit Trench & Accompanying Earthworks (Monument)
- 5234/0/1 WWII Spigot Mortar Pedestal (Building)
- 7435/0/1 WWII Type 22 Pillbox, Pipewell (Building)
Referenced Events (24)
- ENN19175 58 Broadmead Avenue (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7762003 & 7762004)
- ENN19395 Billing Road (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7861024)
- ENN19391 Boughton Green Road (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7664010)
- ENN103449 Clay Hills Searchlight Site (Defence of Britain Survey), 2003 (Ref: 8761044)
- ENN14107 Defence of Britain Recording, 1996 (Ref: 6259006)
- ENN19414 Defence of Britain Survey Recording, 1995 (Ref: 7659014 & 7659015)
- ENN19770 Defence of Britain survey, 1999 (Ref: 6459030)
- ENN20064 Defence of Britain Survey, Northampton Power Station, 1999 (Ref: 7659017)
- ENN19471 Hardingstone Lane Road Block (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7657033)
- ENN19396 Hardingstone Turn (Defence of Britain Project), 1998 (Ref: 7558015)
- ENN19392 Kettering Road (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7763003)
- ENN106553 Kings Cliffe Airfield (Defence of Britain), 1997
- ENN101551 London Road, Delapre Wood (Defence of Britain Project), 2000 (Ref: 7558018)
- ENN19399 Malcolm Drive/Weedon Road, 1998 (Ref: 7360085)
- ENN19407 Preston Capes Quadrant Tower, 1995 (Measured survey) (Ref: 5955007)
- ENN14906 RAF Greatworth (Defence of Britain Survey), 1996 (Ref: 5543002)
- ENN19398 Rothersthorpe Road (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7459007)
- ENN19394 South Bridge (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7559048)
- ENN19532 St Peter's Bridge (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7859007)
- ENN110567 The Defence of Britain Project
- ENN19397 Towcester Road (Defence of Britain survey), 1998 (Ref: 7458011)
- ENN19393 Trumpet Inn (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 7862014)
- ENN19475 Wellingborough Road (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Measured survey) (Ref: 8062014)
- ENN19177 Whiston House, Home Guard HQ (Defence of Britain Survey), 1998 (Ref: 8560031)
Record last edited
May 9 2025 3:15PM
