Monument record 1585300000 - E of Hard to Find Farm, Flackwell Heath

Searchlight sites typically comprised a small ring-ditch to provide the crew with shelter during an air raid, a predictor emplacement for calculating the height and range of targets, a light anti-aircraft machine gun pit, a generator and hutted accommodation for the crew. During the Second World War searchlights were manned by the Royal Artillery and were under the control of the Army's Anti-Aircraft Command. Searchlight battery no. 506 23 located at Flakwell Heath at SU 880 905. It was manned by 341th Searchlight Battery whose Battery Headquarters were located at Temple Golf Club near Hurley. It was operational by 1st January 1939 (1-2).
This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence (3).

1947 RAF aerial photo shows a small circular earthwork bank at NGR (possibly the gun pit) and 4 huts, 2 accommodation huts and 2 small generator/equipment huts, surrounded by a woodland belt to the east of the earthwork (the huts are also shown on late 1950s OS mapping) (4).