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Penlee Battery is a nature reserve lying on the coastal headland of Penlee Point on the
9.2-inch guns firing at Penlee Battery in 1935The reserve's page at the Cornwall Wildlife Trust website
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Penlee Battery is a nature reserve lying on the coastal headland of Penlee Point on the Rame Peninsula
The Rame Peninsula ( kw, Gorenys an Ros) is a peninsula in south-east Cornwall. The peninsula is surrounded by the English Channel to the south, Plymouth Sound to the east, the Hamoaze to the northeast and the estuary of the River Lynher to ...
, in southeast Cornwall
Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West England. It is recognised as one of the Celtic nations, and is the homeland of the Cornish people. Cornwall is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic ...
, England.
The site was formerly the location of a gun battery, constructed between 1889 and 1892. It was originally armed with two 6-inch BL guns and a 13.5-inch BL, the latter of which was the largest gun of the Plymouth defences. During World War I and II, the battery's armament was made up of three 9.2-inch guns.
After the dissolution of coast artillery in the United Kingdom in 1956 the battery was disarmed and disposed of by the War Office. Many parts of the battery were demolished and gun positions filled in during the 1970s. One of the 6-inch emplacements remains intact, while the battery's magazines remain underground, but are filled in.
It is home to a beach revealed at low tide, and is famous among dragonfly enthusiasts as the site where Britain's first Green Darner dragonfly was found, in 1998.Pellow, Keith (1999b) Common Green Darner ''Anax junius'' (Drury) in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly - The first British and European Records Journal of the British Dragonfly Society
The ''Journal of the British Dragonfly Society'' is a scientific journal published twice-yearly by the British Dragonfly Society since 1983. It contains material relevant to Odonata recorded from the United Kingdom. The editor-in-chief is P. J. Mil ...
Vol. 15 No. 1 pp. 21-22
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9.2-inch guns firing at Penlee Battery in 1935
Forts in Cornwall Military history of Cornwall Nature reserves in Cornwall Nature reserves of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Coastal artillery Artillery batteries {{Cornwall-struct-stub