Heugh Battery Museum 2025

A small, independent, museum with a mission to transport visitors back to the date and location of the UK’s only First World War battlefield site, and to give a flavour of the role of the Battery during the Second World War. The site and its collections are used to inform, educate, and encourage understanding of these pivotal points in history.

Contacts

Operator: Heugh Gun Battery Trust Ltd

Address: Moor Terrace Headland Hartlepool Cleveland TS24 0PS

  • Telephone: 01429 270 746
  • Email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
  • Website: View website

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Open Days & Times

Fri-Mon 1000-1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.

Travel

  • By Rail: Hartlepool / 3 miles

Facilities

  • Parking
  • Refreshments
  • Part disabled access

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The museum preserves and commemorates the Bombardment of the Hartlepools in December 1914, when the guns of the Heugh Battery and neighbouring Lighthouse Battery were engaged in ship-to-shore combat with the German Navy.

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