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Latitude: 56.0297 / 56°1'47"N
Longitude: -3.1338 / 3°8'1"W
OS Eastings: 329440
OS Northings: 682450
OS Grid: NT294824
Mapcode National: GBR 2B.S3X1
Mapcode Global: WH6S7.TPXW
Plus Code: 9C8R2VH8+VF
Entry Name: Inchkeith Island, Batteries
Listing Date: 3 August 1979
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 342006
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9709
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200342006
Location: Kinghorn
County: Fife
Electoral Ward: Burntisland, Kinghorn and Western Kirkcaldy
Parish: Kinghorn
Traditional County: Fife
1878-81. 3 polygonal batteries, protected by ditches, on NW and S headlands. Rubble external walls with barbettes, partly subterranean. Massive casemates and magazines, some lined with brick, at rear of gun-platforms. No 1 (NW) and No 3 (S) batteries are dated 1880; they are less altered than No 2 (NE) Battery. Later gun emplacements built in both world wars.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. Built to protect the port of Leith. Plans were prepared by Colonel John Terbury Moggridge but based upon sketches made some 20 years earlier. The contractors were Messrs Hill & Co who had built the powerful fortifications at Portsmouth and Spithead. The three batteries are connected by a military road. The batteries mounted four 18 ton guns. To support them a battery with two 18 ton guns was erected at Kinghorn Ness, 2 3/4 miles to NW, but nothing survives of this. Guns in the NW and NE batteries were mounted on a platform which revolved on a concrete floor, and that in the S battery on a granite floor. Inchkeith Lighthouse (1803-4) and Lord Herbert of Lea's Memorial are listed separately.
Re-scheduled area 14 February 2002.
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