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Battery Gardens is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the substantial remains of a Victorian practice battery together with a Second World War emergency coastal defence installation. The Victorian battery, constructed in the nineteenth century, reflects the period's investment in coastal fortification and serves as evidence of artillery training practices of that era. The World War II structures represent the rapid militarisation of the Devon coast during the threat of invasion, incorporating typical emergency defences hastily erected following the fall of France in 1940. The site thus demonstrates two distinct phases of military engineering separated by some seventy years, preserving the archaeological record of both Victorian-era coastal defence strategy and mid-twentieth-century emergency preparedness.
World War II Emergency Coastal Battery and remains of a Victorian practice battery, at Battery Gardens is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1020411. View the official record →
Battery Gardens is a scheduled ancient monument comprising the substantial remains of a Victorian practice battery together with a Second World War emergency coastal defence installation.
World War II Emergency Coastal Battery and remains of a Victorian practice battery, at Battery Gardens 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 1020411.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Windmill Hill Cave, Brixham (1 km), Hillfort known as Greenway Camp, immediately north east of Cart Wood (4.6 km), Bowl barrow 690m north of Longwood House (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of World War II Emergency Coastal Battery and remains of a Victorian practice battery, at Battery Gardens's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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World War II Emergency Coastal Battery and remains of a Victorian practice battery, at Battery Gardens stands on Devonian Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is limestone, mudstone and calcareous mudstone.