Whitsand Battery - July 07

kernowexpeditionary · Aug 31, 2008

Whitsand battery is now a holiday park - tents and caravans and the like, although the battery is still respected and maintained. i believe it was buit to defend against landings on whitsand bay - the nearby Polhorn fort was found to be totally useless, as its angle of fire was usefull to fire upon the beach however invading ships could shell polhorn at will unchallenged

many interesting features remain, and all underground rooms can be visited with a little effort...

I've now visited all of the remaining dockyard defence coastal batteries....

enjoy!

Engineer · Aug 31, 2008

Whitsand Battery.

Some fine pics, what size guns did it have?

freebird · Aug 31, 2008

Really nice pics especially the sillouette shot! What's left of the battery does look well cared for, good to see!

Urban Mole · Aug 31, 2008

Nice find there

Its strange how some always end up as holiday parks, there were a few over here the same, but long gone, and some are still here.

kernowexpeditionary · Aug 31, 2008

the gun mounts are huge - pretty sure they were first armed with 12.5"RML's

Foxylady · Aug 31, 2008

Love that gun mount. It's superb. Excellent battery.

sneakk · Sep 1, 2008

Have a chalet on the cliff here. There are a few smaller batteries nearby with gun emplacements etc, lots of little places around the coast you probably wouldn't know were there!

kernowexpeditionary · Sep 1, 2008

would be very interested a flashearth links m8?

krela · Sep 1, 2008

kernowexpeditionary said:
would be very interested a flashearth links m8?

Or you could take 10 seconds to google it yourself and save somebody the job of doing it for you!

kernowexpeditionary · Sep 1, 2008

krela said:
Or you could take 10 seconds to google it yourself and save somebody the job of doing it for you!

well as sneakk explained locations as being "you wouldnt know they were there" and the fact ive looked into these batteries very extensively - i didnt think it was much to ask....

thanks for your helpful comments tho - i must of logged on to 28DL by mistake

krela · Sep 1, 2008

kernowexpeditionary said:
well as sneakk explained locations as being "you wouldnt know they were there" and the fact ive looked into these batteries very extensively - i didnt think it was much to ask....

thanks for your helpful comments tho - i must of logged on to 28DL by mistake

Well the first result on google gives you the grid ref!

krela · Sep 1, 2008

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&h...701&spn=0.003388,0.009656&t=h&z=17&iwloc=addr

Oops that's the wrong fort, I stand corrected!

krela · Sep 1, 2008

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...1561,-4.236925&spn=0.001695,0.004828&t=h&z=18

I think that's the one.

kernowexpeditionary · Sep 1, 2008

thanks for looking

the first link is tregantle fort & firing range,

the second is whitsand battery hence this report!

krela · Sep 1, 2008

Ironically the grid ref on the first result on google *is* whitsand battery, but it didnt look like a battery to me as I didnt look close enough, so a quick scout round took me to tregantle close by, duh!

Whitsand Bay Caravan Park looks like an interesting place to stay, maybe I can persuade my wife to go for a long weekend there if we ever get any holiday weather.

kernowexpeditionary · Sep 1, 2008

yes m8, it would be an amazing place to stay.... theres many coastal batteries, aa batteries, pill boxes, fuel depot, tunnels - all sorts within a few min walk!

krela · Sep 1, 2008

kernowexpeditionary said:
yes m8, it would be an amazing place to stay.... theres many coastal batteries, aa batteries, pill boxes, fuel depot, tunnels - all sorts within a few min walk!

Shush, don't tell my wife that!

kernowexpeditionary · Sep 1, 2008

get down for a few days m8!

samsmeg123 · Sep 1, 2008

wow, the campsite must be pretty damn good!

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