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East Wear Battery
East Wear Battery is a gun battery to the east of the Verne Citadel on the Isle of Portland, in Dorset, England. The battery was built in the 1860s as a result of the Royal Commission to guard the new Portland harbour and Royal Navy institutions on the island.
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