Greenock, Battery Park
Anti Aircraft Battery (Second World War)
Site Name Greenock, Battery Park
Classification Anti Aircraft Battery (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Ops No 1940, Gourock 3
Canmore ID 356310
Site Number NS27NE 501
NGR NS 25725 77690
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/356310
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Greenock
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Inverclyde
- Former County Renfrewshire
Field Visit (22 August 2017)
Nothing is now visible in an area redeveloped for playing fields of a World War Two light anti-aircraft battery which is noted in a document held by the National Archives at Kew (WO 166 7369). The battery was one of at least three, constructed to protect Gourock. Similar arrangements of light anti-aircraft batteries were established around a number of vulnerable points, either military or industrial, along the banks of the Clyde.
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, AKK) 22 August 2017
