Monument record KDG 029 - WW2 Searchlight Battery (Site of)

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Summary

Site of a Second World War searchlight battery at Kedington

Location

Grid reference Centred TL 7000 4569 (51m by 44m)
Map sheet TL74NW
Civil Parish KEDINGTON, ST EDMUNDSBURY, SUFFOLK

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Full Description

The site of a Second World War searchlight battery at Kedington, thought to have been located near to Ruse's Farm. It was manned by 33 Searchlight Regiment. The battery was operational from October 1941. It formed part of a network of searchlights named Area DN02, which along with another such area (DN01) formed a defensive belt in the Essex-Cambridgeshire-Suffolk borders area and on into Hertfordshire. Searchlight sites typically comprised a small ring-ditch to provide the crew with shelter during an air raid, a predictor emplacement for calculating the height and range of targets, a light anti-aircraft machine gun pit, a generator and hutted accommodation for the crew. (S1).

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <S1> Index: English Heritage. Pastscape. http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=1499225.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Oct 17 2013 1:19PM

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