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Battery position of 387 Coast Defence Battery (522 Coast Regiment). 2 x 6in guns and 1 x 4.5in howitzer. Three officers and 80 other ranks. Cassini ref. 994056. [Document gives position as 'Abbotsbury Castle', which is further north - for this 994076 would be a more likely reference: however, 994056 is given in more than one documentary source and 993056 and 994057 in others]. In 1944 the battery was under 'care and maintenance'.
(Source: Document 1943)
Air photograph shows two gun emplacements, with a further rectangular structure (probably of the battery) adjacent to the N.
(Source: Air Photograph 1948/05/07)
Two 4in guns of 387 Battery. Cassini ref. 996058. Part of Fixed Defences, Portland.
(Source: Document 1941/03/21)
2 x 4in naval guns of 387 Coast Battery RA. Cassini ref. 996058. Guns mounted by 7.8.40
(Source: Document 1940/08)


      

        Type of site
        COAST BATTERY
      

      

        Location
        Area close to Peasons Plantations above strip lynchets, to the E of Buller's Way, Abbotsbury.

      

      

        Area
        
 
 Abbotsbury, Dorset, England

        		
       

      

        Grid reference
        
            SY 5628 8465
            

        		
      

      

        Period
        WW2

      

      

        Condition
        Removed

      

      

        Materials
        
            Unknown
        
      

      

        Recorder
         (Defence of Britain Project)
      

      

        Defence grouping
        
 
 Dorset coast defences - Defences of the Dorset coast line and immediate hinterland. 

        		
      

      

        Photographs
        
View of COAST BATTERY - S0016256
         

       		
      

      

        DOB site reference:
        S0016256

      

      

        Reference
        
             1943 Standing Operation Instruction

             1943 Hampshire and Dorset District  Standing Operation Instruction

             1944 Locations and Armament of Coast Artillery

             1948/05/07 SY 5685/1 (fr.0092)

             1941/03/21 Operation Order No.1

             1940/09/15 50 Division 'G' War Diary

             1940/08 387 Coast Battery RA War Diary

             1941 210th Infantry Brigade War Diary

             1940/08/05 Operation Order No.17

        		
      


      

        Event
        
            Construction, In the period 1940 1941

        		
      

    



  




    

				













    

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