Land of Iron 2025
Cleveland
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.
Operator: Heugh Gun Battery Trust Ltd
Address: Moor Terrace Headland Hartlepool Cleveland TS24 0PS
Fri-Mon 1000-1600. Visit website or facebook for more details.
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.