Lydden Spout Battery
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Lydden Spout Battery is a World War II
coastal defence battery built in 1941 west of Dover
. Originally armed with three 6 inch Mark VII naval guns on Mark V mountings, later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns on the same mountings. Fan Bay Battery to the east of Dover is built to the same plan.
The battery is to the south of the current A20. Most of the buildings have been demolished and the emplacements filled with concrete, but the catering rooms survive.
Lydden Spout Battery's remaining buildings above ground: Warrant Officer’s Mess/Sergeants Mess in the foreground. Dining room and cook house is the "L" shaped building behind.
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
coastal defence battery built in 1941 west of Dover
Dover
Dover is a town and major ferry port in the home county of Kent, in South East England. It faces France across the narrowest part of the English Channel, and lies south-east of Canterbury; east of Kent's administrative capital Maidstone; and north-east along the coastline from Dungeness and Hastings...
. Originally armed with three 6 inch Mark VII naval guns on Mark V mountings, later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns on the same mountings. Fan Bay Battery to the east of Dover is built to the same plan.
The battery is to the south of the current A20. Most of the buildings have been demolished and the emplacements filled with concrete, but the catering rooms survive.
Lydden Spout Battery's remaining buildings above ground: Warrant Officer’s Mess/Sergeants Mess in the foreground. Dining room and cook house is the "L" shaped building behind.