Gun Defended Areas

The following Gun Defended Areas had permanent HAA sites. The maps on each page show the approximate location of these sites based on modern maps. Also given is the following information, where known:
Site name, site code, modern OS 6 figure grid reference.

Additional information may also be given such as armament, dates active and units deployed. Note that not all sites shown may have been occupied at the same time.

Only those sites that are part of the GDA are shown. Sites from neighbouring GDA’s and temporary “Diver” sites are not shown.

Additional locations are also shown such as Light Anti-Aircraft sites, Coastal Batteries, Radar Stations and War related sites (Ordnance Factories etc.).

Anyone thinking of exploring any of these sites should be aware that a lot of them now lie on private land. Permission should always be sought before visiting these sites. Very little remains visible at most sites and many have now been built over.

 

 

Aberdeen – Crewe

Aberdeen Brighton, Sussex
Aldershot, Hampshire Bristol
Andover, Hampshire Brooklands, Surrey
Ardeer, Ayrshire Caerwent, Monmouthshire
Ashford, Kent Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Banbury, Oxfordshire Canterbury, Kent
Barrow, Cumbria Cardiff
Basingstoke, Hampshire Carlisle, Cumbria
Bath, Somerset Castletown, Caithness
Beaulieu, Hampshire Chelmsford, Essex
Bedford, Bedfordshire Chichester, Sussex
Belfast, Northern Ireland Chilbolton, Hampshire
Bircham Newton, Norfolk Clacton, Essex
Birmingham Clyde, Glasgow
Blackpool, Lancashire Colchester, Essex
Bletchley, Buckinghamshire Corby, Northamptonshire
Blyth, Northumberland Coventry, Warwickshire
Bramley, Hampshire Crewe, Cheshire

 

 

 
 

Dartmouth – Linton on Ouse

Dartmouth, Devon Harwich, Essex
Daventry, Northamptonshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Derry, County Londonderry Hawarden, Clwyd
Dishforth, Yorkshire Hawkinge, Kent
Donnington, Shropshire Hayle, Cornwall
Dover, Kent Heysham, Lancashire
Driffield, Yorkshire Holton Heath/Poole, Dorset
Dundee, Tayside Honington, Suffolk
Duxford, Cambridgeshire Humber, Humberside
Exeter, Devon Invergordon, Ross & Cromarty
Falmouth, Cornwall Ipswich, Suffolk
Feltwell, Norfolk Isle of Wight
Folkestone, Kent Kinloss, Moray
Ford, Sussex Kyle of Lochalsh, Ross & Cromarty
Forth, Lanarkshire Larne, County Antrim
Fort William, Highland Leconfield, Yorkshire
Foulness, Essex Leeds, Yorkshire
Gloucester/Brockworth, Leicester, Leicestershire
Grantham, East Midlands Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire
Guildford, Surrey Lincoln, Lincolnshire

 

 

 
 

Littlehampton – Reading

Linton on Ouse, Yorkshire North Coates, Lincolnshire
Littlehampton, Sussex North Foreland, Kent
Loch Ewe, Highlands North Weald, Essex
London Norwich, Norfolk
Lossiemouth, Moray Nottingham & Derby
Lough Erne, County Fermanagh Oban, Argyll & Bute
Lowestoft, Suffolk Oxford, Oxfordshire
Lymington, Hampshire Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
Maidstone, Kent Penzance, Cornwall
Manchester Perranporth, Cornwall
Manston, Kent Perth, Perthshire
Marham, Norfolk Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Martlesham, Suffolk Plymouth, Devon
Mersey, Merseyside Portland/Weymouth, Dorset
Methil, Fife Portreath, Cornwall
Mildenhall, Suffolk Portsmouth, Hampshire
Milford Haven, Dyfed Predannack, Cornwall
Newhaven, Sussex Preston, Lancashire
Newport, South Wales Ramsgate/Richborough, Kent
Northallerton, Yorkshire Reading, Berkshire

 

 

 
 

Redhill – York

Redhill, Surrey Taunton, Somerset
Rye, Sussex Tees, Teeside
St Athan, Glamorgan Thames & Medway, Kent
St Eval, Cornwall Thames Maunsell Forts
Salcombe, Devon Thorney Island, Sussex
Salisbury, Wiltshire Topcliffe, Yorkshire
Sandy, Bedfordshire Truro, Cornwall
Scapa, Orkney Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire Tyne, Tyne & Wear
Sheffield, Yorkshire Wattisham, Suffolk
Shetland Watton, Norfolk
Shoreham, Sussex Weston super Mare, Somerset
Slough, Berkshire Wick, Caithness
Southampton, Hampshire Winchester, Hampshire
Swansea, South Wales Wittering, Cambridgeshire
Swindon, Wiltshire Yarmouth, Norfolk
Tangmere, Sussex Yeovil, Somerset
  York, Yorkshire
The Royal Artillery 1939-45