Hougham Battery is a World War II coastal defence battery built in 1941 between Dover and Folkestone in southeast England.It is on the cliff-edge between Abbot's Cliff and Shakespeare Cliff. The battery is equipped with three 8-inch (203 mm) Mark VIII naval guns.The complex was built in 1941 and manned by men of 520 Coastal Regiment Royal Artillery The batteries to the east and west of Dover were each designated as a fortress and each fortress had an underground plotting room from where the guns could be controlled.At Hougham. there are No.1, No.2 and No.3 Gun emplacements.
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