Monument record 15635 - Second World War Searchlight Battery North-east of Moss Lane Farm

<1> Archaeological Research Services Ltd, 2007-9, North West Rapid Coastal Zone National Mapping Programme Assessment Survey, 1462546 (Digital Archive). SCH8040.

A Second World War searchlight battery is visible as a structure on air photographs (see 2), centred at SJ 5739 8496. No surface features are visible on the latest 1990 Ordnance Survey vertical photography (see 3). This site may be associated with a searchlight battery to the south (UID 1462552) and an anti aircraft battery to the east (UID 1462459).

<2> Royal Air Force, 1944-1947, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review, RAF 106G/UK/622 3081, 10/08/1945 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8041.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Aerial Photographs, 1990 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8310.

<4> Bluesky International Ltd, 2015-2017, Aerial Photography for Great Britain, Bluesky International APGB Imagery 2015-2017, SJ5784 21/04/2016 (Aerial Photograph). SCH8848.

One of the buildings appears to be still extant.