High Angle Battery, Verne, Portland, Dorset
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High Angle Battery, Verne, Portland, Dorset
Image: © D M Wilmot Taken: 27 Aug 2011
A Victorian Coastal Defence Emplacement 1800, constructed in former stone quarry. The name comes from type of guns used in relation to the 'low' level appearance. Magazines housed in surrounding banking with a railway linking them to the guns.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.558289
Longitude
-2.432921