Lydden Spout Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 west of Dover. Originally armed with three 6-inch Mark VII naval guns on Mark V mountings, later upgraded to Mark XXIV guns on the same mountings. Fan Bay Battery to the east of Dover is built to the same plan.

The battery is to the south of the current A20. Most of the buildings have been demolished and the emplacements filled with concrete, but the catering rooms survive.

Lydden Spout Battery

Lydden Spout Battery's remaining buildings above ground: Warrant Officer's Mess/Sergeants Mess in the foreground. Dining room and cook house is the "L" shaped building behind.

Lydden Spout Battery

See also

Cross-Channel guns in the Second World War

External links

Subterranea Britannica description

Forts in Dover, Kent

Military history of Dover, Kent

Artillery batteries

Lydden Spout Battery