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Historic artillery battery on Gibraltar’s North Face, overlooking town and airport.

Green’s Lodge Battery is an artillery battery in Gibraltar, on the north side of the Rock at the northern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, above Farringdon’s Battery. Built in 1776, it saw active use during the Great Siege of Gibraltar and later gained observation posts in the twentieth century.

Green’s Lodge Battery is an artillery battery in Gibraltar, on the north side of the Rock of Gibraltar at the northern end of the Upper Rock Nature Reserve, above Farringdon’s Battery. Also known as the Superior Battery, it stands more than 1,000 feet up the North Face, at the end of Green’s Lodge Nature Trail, also referred to as Green’s Lodge Road. The battery was built in 1776, when five 24‑pounder guns were first mounted; the number of guns was later reduced to two. It was actively used during the Great Siege of Gibraltar between 1779 and 1783, and the success of operations from the battery led British engineers to construct another battery at Middle Hill, the Rock Gun Battery. Over the years the emplacement underwent reconstruction. In the early twentieth century an observation post and the hall leading to it were constructed, and in the mid twentieth century, during the Second World War, an additional observation post was built. The battery, its structures and surroundings are now largely in poor and neglected condition. From the battery there are views over Gibraltar’s cemetery, Gibraltar Airport and the Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción.