Cliff End Battery

Cliff End Battery (map reference SZ333890) is a battery on the west coast of the Isle of Wight overlooking Fort Albert.

It is one of the many Palmerston Forts built on the island to protect it in response to a perceived French invasion.

[1] The battery was used by volunteers and Territorial Force Artillery units for practice camps.

The battery was disarmed in 1951 and the site sold by the War Office in 1951.

The six 12.5-inch RML guns which were pushed over the cliff when they were dismounted after 1899 have since been recovered, with one of them now outside of Fort Albert, and two at Hurst Castle on the other side of the Needles passage.

Hampshire and Dorset Royal Garrison Artillery at Cliff End, 1908