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Emergency coast battery: 2 x 6in. guns, one on each side of the harbour entrance.
(Source: Book )
Coastal battery. Remains of some buildings relating to the battery visible at the old fort. The larger emplacements and their associated structures were removed immediately post-war. [information from 1976 aerial photographs].
(Source: Report 2000/05)


      

        Type of site
        EMERGENCY COAST DEFENCE BATTERY
      

      

        Location
        Near the disused fort, one gun on each side of the harbour entrance, Shoreham-by-Sea.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, West, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            TQ 233 045
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Removed

      

      

        Materials
        
            Clay Brick, 
            Concrete, 
            Reinforced Concrete
        
      

      

        Recorder
        [Unknown] ([Unknown])
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Sussex coast defences - Defences of the East and West Sussex coastlines, and their immediate hinterland. 

 
 Shoreham nodal point - Defences of Shoreham coastal town  nodal point. Cassini ref. Q6524. [Source:  Nodal Points, Appendix D to West Sussex Sub-District Defence Scheme, 1943 - PRO WO 166/11008]. 

        		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0012342

      

      

        Reference
        
             1985 The Military Defence of West Sussex

             2000/05 World War Two Coastal Batteries

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, During 1940 

            Destruction, In the period 1943 1945

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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