Monument record MWX1297 - Coastal Artillery Battery, Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis coastal battery. An emergency battery built during the Second Workd War as part of Southern Command's coastal defences. Features associated with the battery are visible as structures and bare-earth features on aerial photographs taken in 1951.

No.1 Gun coastal battery. Four building bases and some steps are all that remain. Cliff collapse has destroyed most of the battery and will be likely to claim the rest of the site in a few years. [information from 1971 aerial photographs]. <1>

Lyme Regis coastal battery. An emergency battery built during the Second World War as part of Southern Command's coastal defences. Features associated with the battery are visible as structures and bare-earth features on aerial photographs taken in 1951 <3>. Features include a small goup of bare earth mounds at SY 34815 93122, two rectilinear structures at SY 34873 93167 and a zigzag wall at SY 34878 93219. The site was digitally plotted during the South West Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey (Dorset).

Lyme Regis coastal battery located at SY 3480 9310. This was an emergency battery built during the Second World War as part of Southern Command's coastal defences. The battery was commissioned in July 1940 and manned by 376 Coast Battery of the Royal Artillery. <4> <5>

Aerial photography from 1971 shows that cliff collapse has destroyed most of the battery and only four building bases and some steps remain. <6>

<1> Council for British Archaeology, 1995, Defence of Britain Project, S0015138 (Digital archive). SWX5.

<2> Council for British Archaeology, 2006, Defence of Britain Project Archive DEB01, S0015138 (Excavation archive). SDO17227.

<3> Royal Air Force, 25-APR-1951, RAF 58/654 4222-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12983.

<4> Dobinson, C S, 2000, Twentieth century fortifications in England. Volume 6.1. Coast Artillery, 1900-1956 (Monograph). SDO17228.

<5> Dobinson, C S, 2000, Twentieth century fortifications in England. Volume 6.2. Coast artillery, 1900-1956 (Monograph). SDO17229.

<6> Anderton, M J, 2000, Twentieth century military recording project: World War Two Coastal Batteries (Unpublished document). SDO17230.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1429223 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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