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Designations - none recorded

Summary

A Second World War Category 'A' nodal point. Findon became a nodal point in 1940 and the extensive anti-tank works, consisting of anti-tank ditches and anti-tank cubes, are visible on aerial photographs taken in 1944, 1945 and 1946. The complex is centred south of Findon in the dry valley that leads northwards from Worthing through the South Downs, a route followed by the A24. At this point is an area enclosed mainly by an anti-tank ditch but also in short stretches by anti-tank cubes. From this enclosure anti-tanks ditches run east and west up the valley sides linking up with larger hilltop tank-proof areas on Cissbury Hill and Church Hill. These defensive works are the second such works constructed to impede any enemy advance north along the Findon valley through the Downs and are situated almost 2 kilometres north of the anti-tank line which ran through Worthing (TQ 10 NW 171).

Monument Types

• NODAL POINT (Constructed, WW II - 1940 AD to 1940 AD (at some time))

Sources

Associated Events

• English Heritage National Mapping Programme for Worthing - Weald, West Sussex (Ref: ISSN 1749-8775)

Associated Monuments

• MWS9202 - Related to: Anti-Aircraft Gun or Searchlight Emplacement, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9203 - Related to: Anti-Aircraft Gun or Searchlight Emplacement, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9205 - Related to: Anti-Aircraft Gun or Searchlight Emplacement, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9206 - Related to: Anti-Aircraft Gun or Searchlight Emplacement, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9207 - Related to: Anti-Aircraft Gun or Searchlight Emplacement, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS7344 - Related to: Anti-tank defence (Monument)
• MWS7793 - Related to: Anti-Tank Defence, Tolmare Farm, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9208 - Related to: Anti-tank Ditch, Cissbury Hill, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS6361 - Related to: Cissbury Ring Iron Age Hillfort, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9199 - Related to: Concrete Base, Cissbury Plantation, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9235 - Related to: Dew Pond on Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9234 - Related to: Earthen Mound, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS12207 - Related to: Earthwork Remains of a Group of World War II Bomb Craters situated on Canada Bottom, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9197 - Related to: Light Anti-Aircraft Battery or Gun Emplacement, Cissbury Hill, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9221 - Related to: Linear Gully, Cissbury Hill, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9237 - Related to: Lynchet, Canada Bottom, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9213 - Related to: Nissen Hut Base, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9200 - Related to: Possible Bunker, Cissbury Plantation, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9201 - Related to: Possible Generator Pit, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9196 - Related to: Possible Slit Trench, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9204 - Related to: Rectangular Mound, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9198 - Related to: Site of a Firing Range, Deep Bottom, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9195 - Related to: Slit Trench System, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9209 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9210 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9211 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9212 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9214 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9215 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9216 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9217 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9218 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9219 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9220 - Related to: Slit Trench, Cissbury Ring, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9224 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9225 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9226 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9227 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9231 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9232 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon (Monument)
• MWS9222 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon and Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9223 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Findon and Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9229 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Worthing (Monument)
• MWS9230 - Related to: Terraced Trackway, Cissbury Hill, Worthing (Monument)

Associated Finds - none recorded

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