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New Needles Battery

A Grade II Listed Building in Totland, Isle of Wight

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.6622 / 50°39'44"N

Longitude: -1.5782 / 1°34'41"W

OS Eastings: 429911

OS Northings: 84815

OS Grid: SZ299848

Mapcode National: GBR 67W.HT8

Mapcode Global: FRA 77LB.702

Plus Code: 9C2WMC6C+VP

Entry Name: New Needles Battery

Listing Date: 28 March 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1209415

English Heritage Legacy ID: 393233

ID on this website: 101209415

Location: Isle of Wight, PO39

County: Isle of Wight

Civil Parish: Totland

Traditional County: Hampshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Isle of Wight

Church of England Parish: Totland Bay Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Portsmouth

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Description


TOTLAND

SZ38NW New Needles Battery
1354-0/4/309

II

Former battery, now owned by National Trust as a museum. Built
in 1893 to take 3 9.2-inch B.L. guns and altered and enlarged
in 1900-02, 1911-14 and 1939-45. Comprizes a concrete redoubt
curved gun emplacements with semi-underground magazines
between
(Anthony Cartwell MA and Peter Sprack: The Needles Defences:
16 - 17).


Listing NGR: SZ2991184815

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