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Originally an L-shaped battery, built of brick with mountings for 18 guns to cover the W Solent. Now only the seaward wall remains. During WW2 the Battery was so short of manpower that scaffold poles and tailors' dummies were used to make it look as if it was fully manned. After the war, it remained a training base until 1950.
(Source: Field Visit 1998/10/16)
Cliff End Battery - coast artillery battery with 2 x 6in guns and 3 x 4.7in gun emplacements.. 2 x searchlights on old sea wall. Battery observation post. Most of the battery has been demolished, but it is reported that holiday homes on the site are built upon the concrete roofs of magazines only demolished to ground level.
(Source: Field Visit )
No.1 Gun coastal battery. One emplacement, BOP, and two or three ancillary structures remain. [information from 1968 aerial photographs].
(Source: Report 2000/05)


      

        Official Name
        Cliff End Battery
      

      

        Type of site
        COAST BATTERY
      

      

        Location
        Monks Lane, Freshwater.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SZ 331 890
             (Scale: 1:25000
              , 1995)
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Bad

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        Carson, Jeffrey
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Isle of Wight coastal defences - Defences of the coast of the Isle of Wight. 

        		
      

      

        Attached Sheets
        (1) - additional information.

      

      

        Photographs
        
     (8) - site and exterior views.  
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0012103

      

      

        Reference
        
             2000/05 World War Two Coastal Batteries

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Field Visit, On 1998/10/16 

            Abandonment, During 1950 

            Recommission, During 1940 

            Demolition, partial, In the period 1960 1985

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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