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PRN | 8009 | ||||
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Site or location name | Dalgety Bay, Downing Point Battery | ||||
Summary | |||||
Description | Part of Forth Inner Defences, built 1914. Two 4.7' guns from Kinghorn battery mounted here October 1914, these moved to Inchcolm Is. battery in 1917, and two 12lb 18CWT guns from Inchcolm moved here July 1917. Gun positions and remains of BOP survive on clifftop. Unclear if one of surrounding pillboxes also survives in gardens at Morlich Rd. DELs also gone. Edit- Directions: Follow the A921 Rosyth-Kirkcaldy Rd East through the r/about at Dalgety Bay station (C.Kolonko, 2016) | ||||
Monument Type | COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY;COAST ARTILLERY BATTERY | ||||
Desgination | None | ||||
Material | CONCRETE | ||||
Location |
Country | SCOTLAND | ||||
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County | Dalgety | ||||
Site Location | Follow the A921 Rosyth-Kirkcaldy Rd East through the r/about at Inverkeithing station. At next r/about right onto the Western Access Rd. Through next r/about onto Regent's Way. At third r/about right | ||||
Postcode | KY11 9YD | ||||
Map Reference | NGR: NT1576582463 (315765, 682463) | ||||
Condition/Threat | |||||
Condition (Date) | Poor (01-05-2016) | ||||
Threat | Overgrown vegetation | ||||
Signif | High | ||||
Identifiers | |||||
HER/SMR Number | 0 | ||||
NMR Number | NT18SE24 | ||||
Administration | |||||
Recorded By (Date) | Gordon Wilkie - Armed Forces in Scotland | ||||
Copiled On | 01-05-2016 | ||||
Last Updated | 03-04-2018 |
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Downing Point Battery, part of the Forth Inner Defences (Downing Point, Dalgety, Fife). (File name: 8009_593.jpg) |
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