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Pages in category "British forts" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bombay Castle;
In the United Kingdom the term fort superseded the term castle in the Tudor period when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves. See also: Castles in the United Kingdom which contains articles about many castles of the 11th to 16th centuries, and some later non-military buildings styled as castles.
There are 1,224 hill forts in England. [1] Although some originate in the Bronze Age, the majority of hill forts in Britain were constructed during the Iron Age (about 8th century BC to the Roman conquest of Britain). There was a trend in the 2nd century BC for hill forts to fall out of use. [2]
The northern British peoples who constructed hill forts knew of various forms of the monuments, leading Alcock to note that "the three Celtic peoples of northern Britain [Britons, Picts and Gaels] were fully aware of the potential of different types of fort, and used them variously, taking account only of local terrain, building materials, and ...
The Maunsell Forts are towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom. They were operated as army and navy forts, and named for their designer, Guy Maunsell. [1] The forts were decommissioned during the late 1950s and later used for other activities including pirate radio broadcasting.
Most of the forts in this category were built between the 16th and 20th centuries. In England the term fort gradually superseded the term castle in the Tudor period (1485-1603) when the royal family and the nobility stopped building new fortified residences for themselves.
The nine British Saxon Shore forts in the Notitia Dignitatum. Bodleian Library, Oxford. The nine forts mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum for Britain are listed here, from north to south, with their garrisons. [1] Branodunum (Brancaster, Norfolk). One of the earliest forts, dated to the 230s.
Bermuda had around 90 coastal defense forts and batteries [1] scattered all over the island chain. Early colonial defense works constructed before the 19th century were primarily small coastal batteries built of stone having anywhere from two to ten guns. Some of these early forts and batteries are the oldest standing masonry forts in the new ...