Parson’s Lodge Battery
Parson's Lodge Battery is a coastal battery and fort in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tony Bowden, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Victualling Yard and The Rock.
Victualling Yard
Historic building
Photo: Larry Wentzel, CC BY 2.0.
The Victualling Yard was a victualling facility in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar built for supplying Royal Navy ships while anchored at Rosia Bay.
The Rock
Peak
Photo: Gibnews, Public domain.
The Rock of Gibraltar is a monolithic limestone mountain 426 m high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a narrow 9-kilometre-long promontory stretching due south into the Mediterranean Sea and is located within the British territory of Gibraltar.
Gorham’s Cave
Cave
Photo: Gibmetal77, CC BY 3.0.
Gorham's Cave is a sea-level cave in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Though not a sea cave, it is often mistaken for one. Considered to be one of the last known habitations of the Neanderthals in Europe, the cave gives its name to the Gorham's… Gorham’s Cave is situated 1 km east of Parson’s Lodge Battery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Windmill Hill and South Mole.
Windmill Hill
Locality
Windmill Hill or Windmill Hill Flats is one of a pair of plateaux, known collectively as the Southern Plateaux, at the southern end of the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
South Mole
Locality
Photo: Itto Ogami, CC BY 3.0.
The South Mole is a breakwater located in the southern section of Gibraltar Harbour, in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar, at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.
Coaling Island
Locality
Photo: Mrjohncummings, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coaling Island is an area of reclaimed land in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. It is located at the centre of the western end of Gibraltar Harbour as one of its industrial zones.
Parson’s Lodge Battery
- Type: Fort
- Description: gun battery on the Rock of Gibraltar
- Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Gibraltar, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.12012° or 36° 7′ 12″ northLongitude
-5.35191° or 5° 21′ 7″ westElevation
13 metres (43 feet)Open location code
8C8P4JCX+26OpenStreetMap ID
way 178238623OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=fortGeoNames ID
2411500Wikidata ID
Q4406276
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In Other Languages
From Finnish to Portuguese—“Parson’s Lodge Battery” goes by many names.
- Finnish: “Parson’s Lodge”
- Italian: “Parson’s Lodge Battery”
- Japanese: “パースンズ・ロッジ砲台”
- Portuguese: “Parson’s Lodge Battery”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Parson’s Lodge Battery”. Photo: Tony Bowden, CC BY-SA 2.0.