Description

A map consisting of a series of 36 connected segments on a cloth backing about 30cm wide and about 14m long. It covers a length of the Lincolnshire coast from Ingoldmells Point (TF 5743 6872) to Boy Grift Bridge (TF 5338 7996) and the base map is from the OS County Series 1:2500 enlarged to 1:1250. The map is annotated with the positions of beach defences, mostly of 1939-45 date, but including some 1914-18 sites. These sites include gun-emplacements, pill boxes and observation posts, as well as an anti-tank ditch and the line of defensive beach scaffolding. It also notes the position of barbed wire and indicates areas where wire can be dumped. Some of the pill boxes are noted as 'blown'. The annotations are in pencil which has been over-written neatly in red ink. The document would appear to be the original working plan of a survey of those defence works which were to be removed prior to the return of land requisitioned during the Second World War, to its original owners. There is no other documentation with the map and the cover has a label saying 'Lindsey County Council, County Offices, Lincoln'. Photographs of the individual map sheets are held in the Digital Sources folder.

Location

HER HER Library