Antony: Tregantle Fort
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Antony: Tregantle Fort
Image: © Martin Bodman Taken: 9 Sep 2010
One of Lord Palmerston's 'follies', built in 1865 and still forming part of the UK's Defence Estate. When constructed it accommodated 1000 men in barracks and housed a number of long-range guns. It was part of an extensive - and expensive - ring of forts designed to protect Devonport and Plymouth Sound from invasion by the French. The Franco-Prussian war of the 1870s rendered it somewhat irrelevant. Late in the 19th century it was supplied by a narrow-gauge railway from Wacker Quay on the Lynher estuary, running via an inclined plane below Scraesdon Fort. In Antony parish
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Latitude
50.356521
Longitude
-4.27058