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Monument Number 1516753
Hob Uid: 1516753
Location : Cumbria South Lakeland Preston Richard, Preston Patrick
Grid Ref : SD5456285640
Summary : During WW2 the site of the disused Gatebeck Low Gunpowder Works (UID 1086908) was requisitioned by Army Engineers, probably as a military training site. A number of weapons pits, practice trenches and other features survive as earthworks and are visible on photographs. The training site comprises clusters of these features dispersed throughout the grounds of the old Gatebeck Low and High Gunpowder Works. A number of the features appear to be no longer extant on the latest 2011 vertical photography due to subsequent development, but most are obscured by dense tree cover.
More information : SD 544 853 (GCE). During WW2 the site of the disused Gatebeck Low Gunpowder Works (SD 58 NW 34) was requisitioned by Army Engineers. A number of weapons pits, slit trenches and other features survive as earthworks across the site or else are known from aerial photographs; one lies within the area of RSM 27806. Features at the southern (scheduled) end of the site within what is now Millbrook Caravan Park were surveyed at 1:1000 scale as part of the EH: Gatebeck Low Gunpowder Works Survey. See report (1a) and archive in the NMR for full details. There is also a Nissen Hut (SD 58 NW 98) within the area of the Caravan Park, but it is unclear if this was erected by the Army or after the War when the site was used by Westmorland County Council for Civil Defence Training (SD 58 NW 99). (1) A Second World War military training site is visible as earthworks on air photographs, centred at SD 5455 8555. The training site comprises clusters of small practice trenches and weapons pits dispersed throughout the grounds of the old Gatebeck Low and High Gunpowder Works. A number of the features appear to be no longer extant on the latest 2011 vertical photography due to subsequent development, but most are obscured by dense tree cover. (2-3)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Marcus Jecock/14-JUN-2006/EH: Cumbrian Gunpowder Industry Project
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Source Number : 1A
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Source details : M Jecock, C Dunn, A Hunt, P Sinton, N Archer, M Bentley, T Berry, I Goodall, A Menuge and S Taylor 2009, Gatebeck Low Gunpowder Works and the Workers' Settlements of Endmoor and Gatebeck (RDRS 63-2009), 21 and 158-9
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : RAF/106G/LA/195 2059 24-MAR-1945
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : RAF/106G/LA/195 1058 24-MAR-1945
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Monument Period Name : Second World War
Display Date : Second World War
Monument End Date : 1945
Monument Start Date : 1939
Monument Type : Weapons Pit, Practice Trench
Evidence : Earthwork, Levelled Earthwork

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : SD 58 NW 97
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Relationship type : Is referred to by

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Relationship type : General association

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Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 2006-02-20
End Date : 2006-06-14

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2013-02-25
End Date : 2015-12-11

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1516753