Former Needles Battery III (Totland Parish)
United Kingdom /
England /
Freshwater-Totland /
Totland Parish
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/ United Kingdom
/ England
/ Freshwater-Totland
World / United Kingdom / England
The Needles Battery was a military Battery built on the cliff top above the Needles stacks in 1861–63 to guard the West end of the Solent. Its field of fire was from approximately West South West clockwise to Northeast, and it was designed to defend against enemy ships.
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Needles_Battery
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Coordinates: 50°39'44"N 1°34'39"W
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