Site of Second World War Heavy Anti Aicraft battery, 'TN3 Hawkwell', Ashingdon (EHER 20134)

Now destroyed. Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery TN3 at Hawkwell. It was listed as unarmed in 1942.

August 1998. World War Two heavy anti aircraft gun sites survey: site visit and desktop research. NGRs: Gun emplacements, TQ 8511 9461; accommodation site, TQ 8517 9452. Documented in contemporary records as 'TN3 Hawkwell', a WWII Heavy Anti-Aircraft gun site at Ashingdon, north of Hawkwell. Equipment and manning at the site is documented at various dates (6th AA Div, 1940; Dobinson, 1996): Date Guns Radar Regt Bty 30 Apr 1940 unmanned 22 Jun 1942 unarmed none Aerial photographs taken in May 1946 and January 1947 show the clear remains of four anti-aircraft emplacements in a field to the north of Lower Road. They appear to have been octagonal or circular and constructed of banked earth. The mark left by the command post can be seen in the centre. Around the south-east corner of the field the parch marks left by hutting can be seen. An aerial photograph taken in 1960 shows no sign of emplacements or hutting. <1> - <5> The area is now an open meadow and nurseries. <6> NRHE summary description: Site of Second World War heavy anti aircraft battery TN3 at Hawkwell. It was listed as unarmed in 1942. <2>