Shotley Battery, Harwich

#6 among attractions in Harwich

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Facts and practical information

Shotley Battery was built in 1865 on the Shotley Peninsula to guard the port of Felixstowe, within HMS Ganges Naval Training school, on the same site as an existing Martello Tower. ()

Coordinates: 51°57'29"N, 1°16'26"E

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Harwich United Kingdom

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Shotley Battery – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: High Lighthouse, Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich Redoubt, Ganges Wood.

1.1 miSE
Lighthouse
High Lighthouse, Harwich
29 min walk • Harwich High and Low Lighthouses are a pair of early 19th-century towers in Harwich, Essex, which were built as leading lights to help guide vessels into the harbour. They replaced an earlier pair of lights established in the seventeenth century when Harwich was a key operational base for the Royal Navy.
1 miSE
Nightlife, Concerts and shows, Cinema
Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich
26 min walk • The Electric Palace cinema, Harwich, is one of the oldest purpose-built cinemas to survive complete with its silent screen, original projection room and ornamental frontage still intact. It was designed by the architect Harold Ridley Hooper of Ipswich, Suffolk and opened on 29 November 1911.
1.3 miSE
Specialty museum, Museum, Military museum
Harwich Redoubt, Harwich
33 min walk • Harwich Redoubt is a circular fort built in 1808 to defend the port of Harwich, Essex from Napoleonic invasion. The Harwich Society opens it to the public.
0.4 miW
Forest
Ganges Wood, Harwich
12 min walk • Ganges Wood is a woodland in Suffolk, England, near the village of Shotley Gate. It covers a total area of 2.21 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
1.2 miNE
Park
Trimley Marshes, Felixstowe
32 min walk • Trimley Marshes is a 77 hectare nature reserve west of Trimley St Mary, on the outskirts of Felixstowe in Suffolk. It is managed by the Suffolk Wildlife Trust.
1 miE
Harbor
Port of Felixstowe
27 min walk • The Port of Felixstowe, in Felixstowe, Suffolk, is the United Kingdom's busiest container port, dealing with 48% of Britain's containerised trade.
1.1 miSW
Harbor
Harwich International Port, Harwich
28 min walk • Harwich International Port is a North Sea seaport in Essex, England, and one of the Haven ports. It lies on the south bank of the River Stour one mile upstream from the town of Harwich, opposite the Port of Felixstowe.
0.9 miSE
51°56'54"N • 1°17'11"E
LV18 Lightvessel, Harwich
22 min walk • Ship, History museum, Museum
1 miSE
Forts and castles
Bath Side Battery, Harwich
27 min walk • Bath Side Battery was built in 1811 to cover the anchorage of the port of Harwich, Essex, England as part of the same complex as the Redoubt, armed with 3 x 24 pdr cannon.