Forth Defences, Kinghorn Battery
Searchlight Emplacement (Second World War)
Site Name Forth Defences, Kinghorn Battery
Classification Searchlight Emplacement (Second World War)
Canmore ID 271415
Site Number NT28NE 47.04
NGR NT 26727 86118
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271415
- Council Fife
- Parish Kinghorn
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Kirkcaldy
- Former County Fife
NT28NE 47.04 26984 86179
One searchlight emplacement survives at the top of the cliff immediately behind a house.
It is not clear which gun battery this searchlight was linked to.
J Guy 1993; NMRS MS 810/3, 244
Note (2 September 2013)
Searchlight emplacement of Second World Dar date lies in rear garden of a block of flats on Pettycur Road.
The site was previously located to the E, and was also recorded in error as pillbox located to the W (formerly NT28NE 186).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 2 September 2013.
