The most northerly tip of Portishead, Battery Point offers wonderful views along the Bristol Channel. In WWII, a battery of guns was mounted on aprons, which can still be seen today. The beacon was erected between the wars. The stone monument marks the closest place on a UK coast which large ships pass. The dedication is to the seafarers of the West Country who, “since the Middle Ages, on voyages of discovery in times of peace and war, have passed this point, some never to return.”