Palmerston Forts, Milford Haven
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The Palmerston Forts
around Milford Haven
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Palmerston Forts
The Palmerston Forts are a group of forts and associated structures, around the coast of Britain.The forts were built during the Victorian period on the recommendations of the 1860 Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom, following concerns about the strength of the French Navy, and...
around Milford Haven
Milford Haven (harbour)
Milford Haven Waterway is a natural harbour in Pembrokeshire, West Wales. The Haven is a ria or drowned valley flooded at the end of the last Ice Age. formed by the Pembroke River and the Daugleddau estuary, and winds west to the sea...
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- Fort HubberstoneFort HubberstoneFort Hubberstone, on the west side of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, is a Grade II* Listed Building which belongs to a series of forts built as part of the inner line of defence of the Haven following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom...
- Popton FortPopton FortPopton Fort, a Grade II* Listed Building, is a Palmerston fort completed in 1864 as part of the inner line of defence of Milford Haven together with Fort Hubberstone on the opposite bank....
- Scoveston FortScoveston FortScoveston Fort, on the northern shore of Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, is a Grade II Listed Building which belongs to a series of forts built as part of the inner line of defence of the Haven following the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom...
- South Hook Fort
- Stack Rock FortStack Rock FortStack Rock Fort is a Royal Commission fort built on a small island in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire. A Grade II* Listed Building, it was built between 1859 and 1871 with 16 10" and 7 9" RMLs, changed to 4 12 pdr QF guns in 1902. Disarmed in 1929, it was placed on the market in 2005 for £150,000,...
- Thorn Island FortThorn IslandThorn Island is in the Community of Angle off the south west coast of Wales. The island is dominated by a fort that was built to defend Milford Haven from the French Navy. The Angle lifeboat received silver medals in 1878 rescuing the crew of the Loch Shiel on rocks near the island which carried...
- Llanion Battery
- Martello Towers (Pembroke Dock)
- St Cathrine's FortSt Catherine's IslandSt Catherine's Island is a small tidal island linked to Tenby in Pembrokeshire, Wales, by a beach at low tide. The island is home to a Palmerston fort, constructed to protect Pembroke Dock and completed in 1870. In 1907, the island was sold privately for 500 pounds. St...
(Tenby) - Chapel Bay Fort
- East Blockhouse
- West Blockhouse