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Dartmouth Castle K021155DARTMOUTH CASTLE, Devon. View from entrance to Dart Estuary. Gun Tower 1481, North Gun Platform 1539-44, St. Petrox Church 1641
St Catherines Castle N071979ST CATHERINEs CASTLE, Cornwall. Aerial view. One of a pair of small artillery forts built by Henry VIII n the 1530s to defend Fowey Harbour, consisting of two storeys with gun ports at ground level
Deal Castle engraving K041008WALMER CASTLE, Kent. Queen Mothers picture collection. Engraving of Deal Castle
Walmer Castle engraving N070832WALMER CASTLE, Kent. North west view of Walmer Castle in the county of Kent by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck
Blyth blockhouse DP087767Former military structure, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland. Concrete blockhouse and observation post at the harbour entrance
Aerial view of Deal Castle N110364Deal Castle, Kent. Aerial view
Bembridge Fort 29199_013Bembridge Fort, Isle of Wight. A late 19th century hexagonal fort and barracks now partly converted to offices. Photographed from the air in 2014
No Mans Land Fort EAC692690No Mans Land Fort, Solent, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, 2002
Browndown Battery 33946_016Browndown Battery, a Victorian beach defence battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Fort Brockhurst 33944_003Fort Brockhurst, one of the Palmerston Forts in Gosport built in the 19th century to protect Portsmouth, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Fort Monckton 33946_005Fort Monckton, a bastioned artillery fort built between 1781 and 1790 to defend the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire, 2020
Gunboat Traverser system 33942_035Gunboat Traverser system at Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Gunboat Traverser system 33942_030Gunboat Traverser system at Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Priddys Hard 33940_025Priddys Hard, a former Royal Ordnance Depot, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Fort Gilkicker 33939_006Fort Gilkicker, a semi circular, casemented coastal battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020. A Palmerston fort built in the 1860s to protect the anchorage at Spithead
Priddys Hard 33940_020Priddys Hard, a former Royal Ordnance Depot, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020
Puckpool mortar battery 33889_002Puckpool mortar battery, Isle of Wight, 2020
Tilbury Fort 33643_005Tilbury, Essex, 2018. Tilbury Fort, a late 17th century coastal fort with bastions and outworks principally Dutch in design and said to be the best preserved and most complete example of the type
Stokes Bay Battery 33562_003Stokes Bay No. 2 Battery, Hampshire, 2018. A former gun battery of c1860 built as part of the Stokes Bay defences. SZ5898
Fort Monckton 33561_020Fort Monckton, Hampshire, 2018. A bastioned artillery fort. SZ6197
Fort Gilkicker 33561_012Fort Gilkicker, Hampshire, 2018. A semi-circular casemated coastal battery. SZ6097
Browndown Battery 33560_013Browndown Battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5898
Browndown Battery 33560_011Browndown Battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5898
Fort Gilkicker 33562_022Fort Gilkicker, Hampshire, 2018. A semi-circular casemated coastal battery. SZ6097
Deal Castle, Kent DP187707Deal Castle, Kent. Location view from north east
Pendennis Castle N900018PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. Aerial reconstruction painting by Ivan Lapper of the Tudor, Elizabethan and later fortress as it appears today
Pendennis Castle N090099PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. Aerial reconstruction drawing by Ivan Lapper of Pendennis as it may have looked during the siege of 1646
Deal Castle J940471DEAL CASTLE, Kent. Reconstruction drawing of the castle as newly completed in 1540 by Alan Sorrell
Fort Cumberland N070043FORT CUMBERLAND, Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Aerial view
Fort Perch Rock 33151_014Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton, Wallasey, Merseyside. Fortress first built in the 1820s to defend the Port of Liverpool. Photographed in May 2017
Coastal battery IC266_003Reconstruction drawing showing the layout of a typical Second World War emergency coastal battery comprising two 6-inch naval guns in gun-houses
Martello tower IC266_002Cut-away reconstruction drawing showing the internal arrangement of a typical two-storey Martello tower on the south-coast in the early 19th century, with soldiers drilling outside. Chris Evans, 1997
Martello Tower 29926_037Martello Tower 28, Rye, East Sussex. Originally built in 1805-6, this tower provided one of a pair of gun platforms to defend the approach to Rye Harbour
Camber Castle 29926_023Camber Castle, Rye, East Sussex. Device fort built during the reign of Henry VIII to protect the port of Rye, the harbour at Winchelsea and the Camber anchorage
Coastal erosion 28403_001Fort Godwin coastal battery, Kilnsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. The Godwin Battery was built to defend the Humber Estuary during the First Wold War
Landguard Fort c. 1900 J020188LANDGUARD FORT, Felixstowe, Suffolk. Aerial view reconstruction drawing of the fort in c.1900 by Frank J. H. Gardiner (English Heritage Graphics Team)
Walmer Castle from the beach J860338WALMER CASTLE AND GARDENS, Kent. View of the castle from the beach. The Castle commands approaches to the busy anchorage of The Downs
Calshot Castle K860165CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Aerial view. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water
Walmer Castle J860340WALMER CASTLE, Kent. View of cannons on the gun deck
Fort Brockhurst N990009FORT BROCKHURST, Gosport, Hampshire. Exterior view from the south of the moated keep. Brick fortress built in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth Harbour
Fort Brockhurst N060992FORT BROCKHURST, Gosport, Hampshire. Aerial view of the brick fort built in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth Harbour
Deal Castle K971004DEAL CASTLE, Kent. Cannon on the outer bastions with the keep beyond
Martello Tower, Slaughden N071131MARTELLO TOWER, Slaughden, Suffolk. View towards the entrance of the quatrofoil, 19th-century defensive fort
Tilbury Fort J910014TILBURY FORT, Essex. An aerial reconstruction drawing by Alan Sorrell
St Mawes Castle N070912ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View from the sea looking towards the castle
Martello TowerSituated North of Langney Point, Eastbourne, It was used for defence purposes during the 1939/45 war. IoE 293529
Pillbox, Skipsea DP188366Pillbox, Withow Gap, Off Hornsea Road, Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. Exterior view from North West. Coastal Defence. Englands First World War Home Front, 1914-1918
Gun Emplacement DP169964World War 1 gun emplacement, also used in World War 2. View from Blyth Battery, The Links, South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland