Coleshill Royal Observer Corps Post

Description of this historic site

The site of a Royal Observer Corps post established in the Modern Period to monitor and track enemy aircraft. It was located in the area of Trajan Hill.

Notes about this historic site

1 The site of a Royal Observer Corps Post for Coleshill/Curdworth/Hurley established in or before December 1937 as Post 3, cluster G, 5 Group. In September 1950 it was re-named Pot3, cluster F 5 Group at the same location, and in December 1952 re-named again as Post 2, cluster C, 8 Group, with the detail that an elevated post was required. In fact an underground post was constructed in 1965 [WA 9559]

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