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Designations - none recorded

Summary

There is the possible site of a C16 gun battery at Littlehampton. The town is mentioned in a survey of coastal defences made in 1587 as a result of the threat to invasion by the Spanish Armada. An accompanying map suggests that the battery was on the E. bank of the river. A record of the larger coastal defences in 1652 and 1654 does not include Littlehampton. Some date before 1757 a five-gun battery was in position to the NW. of the windmill (see 2218) and may have been sited at the above NGR. The OS map of 1813 shows a barracks (presumably Napoleonic) in about this position. The battery appears to have been replaced in 1759 by one further W. (see 2216). {1} For the C19 fort see 2215.?

Monument Types

• BATTERY (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1599 AD)

Sources

Associated Events - none recorded

Associated Monuments

• MWS3114 - Related to: Gun battery - Littlehampton (Monument)
• MWS3361 - Related to: Littlehampton Fort, Littlehampton (Monument)

Associated Finds - none recorded

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