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Lower Needles Point battery is a coastal defence fortification located on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, dating from the nineteenth century. The battery was constructed as part of the extensive Victorian programme of coastal fortification that strengthened Britain's defensive capabilities during the mid-to-late 1800s. It formed part of the defensive network protecting the strategically important Needles area and the approaches to the Solent. The site comprises the remains of gun emplacements and associated structures typical of Victorian-era coastal artillery batteries.
Lower Needles Point battery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009392. View the official record →
Lower Needles Point battery is a coastal defence fortification located on the Isle of Wight, Hampshire, dating from the nineteenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009392.
Lower Needles Point 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 1009392.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including New Battery and High Down Test Site, The Needles (0.4 km), Bowl barrow on West High Down, 150m north of Roe's Hall (1.1 km), Bowl barrow on Headon Hill (1.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Lower Needles Point battery's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Lower Needles Point battery stands on Early Cretaceous claystone, bedrock that formed in the Early Cretaceous. The rock here is claystone.