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Aberdeen, Girdle Ness, Coast Defence Battery
Coastal Battery (Second World War)
Site Name Aberdeen, Girdle Ness, Coast Defence Battery
Classification Coastal Battery (Second World War)
Alternative Name(s) Greyhope Road; Walker Park; Aberdeen Harbour; Balnagask Golf Course
Canmore ID 81485
Site Number NJ90NE 26
NGR NJ 969 052
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/81485
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NE 26 969 052
See also:
NJ90NE 19 NJ 9570 0578 Pocra Quay, Blockhouse
NJ90NE 22.00 NJ 965 056 Torry Battery
NJ90NE 90 NJ 9541 0658 Queen's Links, Battery
NJ90NE 211 NJ c. 9577 0594 Footdee, Battery
For summary of coast defence works around Aberdeen, see under NJ90NE 22.00.
For related observation post at Crest View (NJ 9565 1998), see NJ91NE 20.
Not to be confused with Torry Battery (NJ 965 056), for which see NJ90NE 22.00.
This coast battery was situated just N of Greyhope Road to the W of Walker Park. Of World War Two construction it consisted in 1940 of 2 x 6-inch Mk XIIB guns which were reduced to a care and maintainance basis in April 1945 and removed later that year. The battery has since been demolished.
Visited by Mr J Guy, 28 July 1992.
J Guy 1993; NMRS MS/712/8 and MS/810/1; WO/192/257; Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich.
This coast battery is visible on RAF WWII vertical air photographs, (106G L/NLA 96, 20.03.1945, 4001-4), on the S side of Girdle Ness. The photographs show the accommodation camp, two gun-emplacements and the triple line of barbed-wire perimeter fence.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), December 2000
This coastal battery, which commanded the coast south of Girdle Ness, has been demolished. Traces of several concrete plinths are still visible at its site, which now lies within Balnagask golf course.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 20 May 2002.
Note (7 January 2021)
(NJ 96810 05342) A short length of interrupted E-W aligned Anti Glider Ditch with three upcast mounds on either side, lies immediately outside the northern perimeter of the coast battery barbed wire enclosure. The battery and the remains of the Anti Glider ditch are shown on the oblique RAF air photographs M/113/NLA/096 04004 flown 20 March 1945 and M/039/NLA/065 0006 flown 17 June 1943.
Information from HES (AKK) 7 January 2021
