Defending Dorset: Holton Heath: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery - Bofors gun tower no. 2 (21)
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Defending Dorset: Holton Heath: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery - Bofors gun tower no. 2 (21)
Image: © Mike Searle Taken: 27 Feb 2017
- LAA Battery: DoB ID: e27075 This is the second of two surviving Holton Heath Bofors 40 mm LAA gun towers; this one is on a bluff on farm land to the west of Sandford House, and about 650 metres north west of its companion further east. Both sites provided light anti-aircraft defence during WW2 for the RNCF of Holton Heath. The condition of both towers here is not good, one in particular looks close to collapse, and so boundary fencing has been erected around the likely danger area. The towers now share the site with a mobile phone company's telecommunications mast. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
50.71598
Longitude
-2.095558