An anti aircraft battery near Rouncil Lane, Leek Wootton and Guy's Cliffe
Warwickshire County Council
Gun emplacement, Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Gun emplacement, Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of the Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Command Post (with base of spotting telescope visible), Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of the Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Command Post (interior, plotting room), Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of the Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Full size replica 3.7 HAA Gun in gun emplacement (Open Day, April 2016), Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of the Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Command Post (entrance), Goodrest Farm.
Image courtesy of the Friends of the Anti-Aircraft Battery at Goodrest Farm (FAAB@GRF)
Anti-Aircraft Battery, Goodrest Farm, mid 1950s
Image courtesy of Chris Goodchild
Bofors Gun Sight at Leek Wotton Anti Aircraft Gun Site, 1955
Image courtesy of Chris Goodchild
Description of this historic site
A ruined building which was formerly a Second World War anti aircraft battery. It lies 100 metres to the south of Rouncil Lane, near Goodrest Cottages.
Notes about this historic site
1 World War II Anti Aircraft Battery in good state of preservation at this location.
2 1948 AP shows 4 gun emplacements, central command post and two unidentified structures. Accommodation to north of site (see WA 8293).
3 The site was known as H25 in the Coventry Gun Defended Area.
4 It was numbered H25 and had four static 3.7′ HAA guns in place with a GL Mk II radar.
5 I have recorded conversations with two ex-ATS personel who were on the site in 1943-44. 477 and 488 HAA batteries RA.
6 The command post and four gun emplacements remain standing whilst two other major buildings seen in the aerial photographs have either been demolished or removed.
7 Documented as first mentioned in 1942 and equipped with 4 x 3.7 static AA guns and GL Mk III fire control radar.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
Comments
The image captioned “Bofors Gun Sight at Leek Wotton Anti Aircraft Gun Site, 1955″ is actually a simplified holdfast for a 3.7”.
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