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Laira Battery is a coastal artillery fortification located at Laira, near Plymouth in Devon. The battery was constructed during the Napoleonic Wars in the early nineteenth century as part of the defensive network protecting Plymouth Sound and the naval dockyard from potential French attack. The site consists of an earthwork battery with gun emplacements designed to mount cannon, constructed to standard military specifications of the period. Like many such batteries erected along the Devon coast during this era of heightened threat, Laira Battery represents the significant investment in coastal defence made by Britain during the prolonged conflict with Napoleonic France.
Laira Battery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1021134. View the official record →
Laira Battery is a coastal artillery fortification located at Laira, near Plymouth in Devon. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1021134.
Laira Battery is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1021134.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Round barrow on Burrow Hill (3.5 km), Mount Batten: prehistoric and Romano-British settlement (4.1 km), Fort Stamford (4.1 km).
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