Monument record 4142/0/8 - Searchlight Battery in Delamere

<1> C S Dobinson, 2000, Twentieth Century Fortifications in England: Supporting paper AA/1; Searchlight Sites in WWII (Report). SCH4458.

Searchlight battery in Delamere. Manned by 352 Company of 38 (The King's Regiment) AA Battalion RE. It was in Section 9, Number 21. It was part of the Liverpool defences and is part of a much larger distribution that covered large areas of Cheshire, some of which are shown as part of this group.

<2> The GeoInformation Group, 2005, 1940s RAF Aerial Photographs from Operation Review (Aerial Photograph). SCH4608.

This aerial photograph depicts two adjacent circular earthworks c.15m in diameter and a further circular earthwork, c.20m in diameter, c.40m to the north-west. Also visible is a small, c.50m diameter, earthwork and a comprex of c.10 buildings.

<3> Various, Various, Oral communication to the HER, Edwards R, 03/04/2018 (Oral Communication). SCH2330.

The site doesn't follow the classic clover leaf layout. It is possible that the larger circular earthwork housed a 1500mm projector and the twin earthworks housed paired predictors. Other features include a LMG position for air defence and huts for accomodation, generators etc.

<4> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1990-2001, Jill Collens and Rob Philpott's Aerial Photographs, 3.2473 - 3.2475, & 3.2477, 13/7/2001 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5403.

This site was first identified as a single ring-ditch like cropmark. It was recorded as CSMR 2963, a a ring ditch/hengiform monument with two opposed entrances.