Barrage Balloon site at Ryton on Dunsmore
Two groups of concrete blocks and a rectangular hollow can be seen on aerial photographs. The blocks were used to tether a barrage balloon and the hollow was formed by its associated winch vehicle.
1 Two groups of concrete blocks and a rectangular hollow can be seen on aerial photographs. The blocks were used to tether a barrage balloon. The hollow was formed by its associated winch vehicle. The tether consists of a central concrete block is surrounded by an approximately 9m diameter circle of 8 regularly spaced blocks of similar dimentions. On the western side of this circle there are five further blocks arranged in a concentric semicircle but with unequal spacings. A semicircular mound can seen to the south of the balloon tether. Its function is uncertain as is it relationship with the balloon tether.
2 Mapped; see Appendix 10.1 Fig. 26.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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