1 Reported site of gun battery protecting the river crossing at Barford.
The site of a Second World War gun battery. It was located at the Barford river crossing.
1 Reported site of pillbox on the north west approach to Barford Bridge alongside embankment between arched bridge and flood relief channel. Now demolished. Much broken concrete can be seen.
The site of a pillbox which was used as part of the defence network during the Second World War. The pillbox is now demolished though the site is marked by a lot of broken concrete. It stood next to Barford Bridge.
1 The primary role of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was the recognition and identification of hostile aircraft. With the start of the cold war and the increasing threat of ...
Royal Observer Corps Underground Monitoring Post at Barford. Monitoring posts were to be used for reporting nuclear bursts and monitoring fall-out in the modern period. The post lies east of a track 130 meters south of Wasperton Lane