Heugh Battery Museum
Heugh Battery Museum is an artillery battery and museum. Visitors find it inside Hartlepool’s built-up area. Officially, it is a scheduled monument.
Museum in Hartlepool
Inside Hartlepool
Heugh Battery Museum is inside Hartlepool’s built-up area, with 4 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Scheduled monument
On the official list of protected heritage; Hartlepool has 117 listed buildings in all, on its History page. About ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather by the month
The warmest stretch in Hartlepool is June to September, at 18–21°C in the afternoon.
Heugh Battery Museum
Wikipedia covers it in 2 languages. Within 15 km there are 18 more places to visit, starting with HMS Trincomalee (2.1 km).
- Type
- Museum
- Listed
- Scheduled monument
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 2 languages
- Town
- in Hartlepool
- Official site
- heughbattery.co.uk
The map
Orange shows Heugh Battery Museum; numbers mark the places near it.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is Hartlepool’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Nearby towns
Its home town tops the list; the rest follow by distance.
Hartlepool
While you are near Heugh Battery Museum
3 museums, 2 historic ships and 2 art galleries are among the 18 within 15 km.
Historic shipHMS Trincomalee2.1 km away2Historic shipHistoric shipPSS Wingfield Castle2.1 km away3
MuseumNational Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool2.1 km away4Art galleryArt galleryHartlepool Art Gallery2.5 km away5
Art galleryMiddlesbrough Institute of Modern Art14 km away6
MuseumTeessaurus Park13 km away7PierPierRedcar Pier12 km away8
MuseumZetland Lifeboat Museum11 km awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Quick answers on Heugh Battery Museum
Where is Heugh Battery Museum?
Heugh Battery Museum is in Hartlepool, County Durham, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Heugh Battery Museum?
Artillery battery and museum in Headland, Hartlepool, County Durham, England, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Heugh Battery Museum?
June to September are the warmest months in Hartlepool, with afternoon highs of 18–21°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
Is Heugh Battery Museum a listed building?
Yes: scheduled monument.
What else is there to see near Heugh Battery Museum?
Within 15 km: HMS Trincomalee (2.1 km), PSS Wingfield Castle (2.1 km), National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool (2.1 km) and Hartlepool Art Gallery (2.5 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (6)
- Heugh Battery Museum: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- HMS Trincomalee: David Manley at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool: James Hearton, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art: Francis Hannaway, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Teessaurus Park: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Zetland Lifeboat Museum: JohnYeadon, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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