Yaverland Battery

Yaverland Battery is a battery on the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. It was constructed between 1861 and 1864. It originally mounted eight 7-inch Armstrong Rifled Breech Loading guns, and enclosed with a Carnot wall.

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Type: Shrubland
Description: artillery battery in Sandown, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Also known as: “Yaverland Battery, 660m south of Yaverland Church”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Wildheart Animal Sanctuary and St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland.

Wildheart Animal Sanctuary

Zoo

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The Wildheart Animal Sanctuary, previously known as the Isle of Wight Zoo and Sandown Zoo, is a wildlife sanctuary on the coastline of Sandown, Isle of Wight. Wildheart Animal Sanctuary is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Yaverland Battery.

St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland

Church

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St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland is a parish church in the Church of England located in Yaverland, Isle of Wight. St John the Baptist Church, Yaverland is situated 2,300 feet north of Yaverland Battery.

Dinosaur Isle

Museum

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Dinosaur Isle is a purpose-built dinosaur museum located in Sandown on the Isle of Wight in southern England. The museum was designed by Isle of Wight architect Rainey Petrie Johns in the shape of a giant pterosaur. Dinosaur Isle is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Yaverland Battery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yaverland and Sandown.

Yaverland

Village

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Yaverland is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sandown, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is just north of Sandown on Sandown Bay.

Sandown

Town

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Sandown is a seaside resort town and civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, England. The neighbouring resort of Shanklin and the settlement of Lake are sited just to the south of the town.

Brading

Town

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Brading is a small town on the east side of the Isle of Wight. It is the main settlement of the civil parish of the same name. The ecclesiastical parish of Brading used to cover about a tenth of the island.

Yaverland Battery

Categories: artillery battery, ruins, and historic site
Location: Sandown, Isle of Wight, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.66374° or 50° 39′ 50″ north

Longitude

-1.13064° or 1° 7′ 50″ west

Open location code

9C2WMV79+FP

OpenStreetMap ID

way 513511722

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=scrub

Wikidata ID

Q8050390

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