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Grenville Battery

Earls Drive, Torpoint Maker

England Cornwall Torpoint Maker

Grenville Battery #1

Grenville Battery #2

Grenville Battery #3

Grenville Battery #4

This coastal battery was built in 1887 and dismounted in 1927. The battery was officially abandoned by the British Army in 1948.

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Source

Text: Kaj Metz
Photos: Gerard Dykstra
https://www.makerheights.org.uk/redoubt4-built-heritage-maker-heights-cornwall

Where is it?

50.33932, -4.19576

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