Modern gun battery.


A volunteer gun battery corps was established for Laxey in 1864.


The battery, which was completed in 1865, was located in a small rectangular enclosure measuring 18 by 15m. The Ordnance Survey First Edition mapping of 1867 marks the enclosure (OS Plot no. 2029) on the foreshore near the south end of the beach. Access would have been through a gateway in the easterly corner and by unmade track across the top of the beach leading back towards the village. The site was marked by a flagstaff, also recorded by the OS ('F.S.').


The Laxey corps had been disbanded by 1872. No obvious remains of the battery survive and the site is now an open public area under lawn.