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Downing Point Battery
Part of British coastal defence WW1
Firth of Forth
Near Dalgety Bay in Scotland, United Kingdom
Original plan of the Downing Point Battery and outer defences (1916)
Site information
Controlled byForth Royal Garrison Artillery, Royal Engineers
ConditionDerelict
Site history
Built1914 (1914)
In use1914-1918 (1914-1918)
MaterialsSteel-reinforced concrete
FateDecommissioned

The Downing Point Battery was a World War I coastal gun battery defending the Firth of Forth. The battery was constructed in 1914 at Downing Point, then part of the Earl of Moray's Donibristle Estate. The site is now situated within the new town of Dalgety Bay in Fife.

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