It is located on Windmill Hill, at the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, below observation post Fire Control South.
Levant Battery is in Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula.
[1][2] The artillery battery is located at the southern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, on Windmill Hill, east of Jews' Gate Cemetery and south of Mediterranean Road (links to maps below).
[4][5][6] By 1907, a supply of drinking water for Levant Battery had been provided by connecting it to reservoirs at the Mediterranean Steps.
[9] In 1798, its repository of military items included a model of Gibraltar, constructed of rock from that site, on a scale of 25 feet per inch.
Gibraltar was described at that time as having its highest point at Levant Battery, represented on the model, 1375 feet above sea level.
[4] In 1981, the gun at Spur Battery was dismantled and transferred to the Imperial War Museum Duxford in Cambridgeshire, England in the military operation referred to as Project Vitello.
[15][16] The 9.2-inch gun from Levant Battery now rests in the Metalroc scrap yard on Devil's Tower Road.