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Anti-landing trench, long since filled-in, but still evident on the ground as a linear depression.
[The recorder was told by local people about this trench. It was excavated using local labour. Large numbers of portable objects were also placed on this and other open areas in the vicinity to stop enemy aircraft landing and taking off again].
(Source: Field Visit 2000/05/18)
Type of site | ANTI LANDING TRENCH |
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Location | Large open field between Chalk Road and the A3100 road near the River Wey. |
Area |
Godalming, Surrey, England |
Grid reference |
SU 970 443
(Scale: 1:25000
)
|
Period | WW2 |
Condition | Removed |
Materials | Earthwork |
Recorder | Urquhart, Cyril |
Defence grouping |
GHQ Line (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey/Kent) - West - East section of GHQ Line running from Reading through Hampshire and West Surrey to Kent (Leigh) following in part a line south of the North Downs. Godalming nodal point - Defences of Godalming Category 'B' nodal point. Cassini ref. Q4163. [Source: List of Nodal Points in Eastern Command, 1940 - PRO WO 199/544]. |
Photographs |
(1) - site view (DIGITISED). |
DOB site reference: | S0011858 |
Event |
Construction, In the period 1940 1941 Field Visit, On 2000/05/18 Infill, In the period 1944 1950 |