IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Sandford, WAREHAM, BH20 7DH
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to BH20 7DH by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (15 Images Found)
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Distance
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Sandford near Wareham
Is this another water tower in the Sandford area? Looking from the east side of Gore Hill.
Image: © Peter Elsdon
Taken: 27 Oct 2009
0.09 miles
2
Sandford near Wareham
Phone mast and WWII anti-aircraft gun tower, Sandford area.
Image: © Peter Elsdon
Taken: 27 Oct 2009
0.10 miles
3
Defending Dorset: Holton Heath: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery - Bofors gun tower no. 2 (21)
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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.
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Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 27 Feb 2017
0.11 miles
4
Defending Dorset: Holton Heath: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery - Bofors gun tower no. 2 (22)
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LAA Battery: DoB ID: e27075
Unlike its identical companion further east, subsidence has particularly affected the structure, such that it is far more obvious here that there are two distinctly separate towers. The narrow gap that originally separated them has widened considerably due to the undermined tower nearest the camera having lurched sideways from the vertical.
Image
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 27 Feb 2017
0.11 miles
5
Defending Dorset: Holton Heath: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery - Bofors gun tower no. 2 (23)
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LAA Battery: DoB ID: e27075
The tower on the right accommodated the gunners with their 40 mm Bofors gun, their ammunition being stored in the lockers at the corners, whilst the tower on the left housed the observers and their Kerrison Predictor equipment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrison_Predictor. It seems the metal railings around the periphery of both towers has not survived. Designated as 'Scheduled' by Historic England.
START:- Image
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 27 Feb 2017
0.11 miles
7
Sandford near Wareham
Farm buildings just west of the A351 leaving Sandford towards Poole
Image: © Peter Elsdon
Taken: 15 Nov 2009
0.15 miles
10
Sandford: postbox № BH20 223, Sandford Drive
A small postbox, rather resplendent for those travelling southbound on the A351 but entirely unseen to those going north. It is emptied finally at 5:15pm on weekdays and at 8am on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 17 Jan 2009
0.17 miles