Second World War HAA Gun Site TN14 Orsett, North West of Orsett (EHER 21485)

Site of a Second World War heavy anti-aircraft gun site. It was listed as unarmed in 1942.

Original HER entry merged with NRHE data import. Documented in contemporary records as “TN14 Orsett”, a WWII Heavy Anti-Aircraft gun site NW of Orsett. <1> Equipment and manning at the site is documented at various dates, it was listed as unarmed in 1942. <1> Manning Date Guns Radar Regt Bty Feb 1940 20 May 1942 unarmed none vacant 22 June 1942 unarmed none An aerial photograph taken in May 1946 shows the site to the E of Fen Lane. There are four octagonal emplacements, seemingly to “March 1938 pattern” <1>, arranged in a semi-circle facing E. Each has around 6 internal ammunition recesses. In the centre of the arc is the command post. 150 yards to the W, at the side of the road are around 20 huts, almost all had a pitched roof. <2> Modern aerial photographs show that nothing of the gun site now remains, the position is now open fields. Similarly, the domestic site has been demolished and redeveloped although one or two elements of the wartime structures may remain among the post-war buildings.