Defending the Coast Collection

Dartmouth Castle K021155
DARTMOUTH CASTLE, Devon. View from entrance to Dart Estuary. Gun Tower 1481, North Gun Platform 1539-44, St. Petrox Church 1641

St Catherines Castle N071979
ST 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 K041008
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. Queen Mothers picture collection. Engraving of Deal Castle

Pendennis Castle N900018
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. Aerial reconstruction painting by Ivan Lapper of the Tudor, Elizabethan and later fortress as it appears today

Blyth blockhouse DP087767
Former military structure, Links Road, Blyth, Northumberland. Concrete blockhouse and observation post at the harbour entrance

Aerial view of Deal Castle N110364
Deal Castle, Kent. Aerial view

Bembridge Fort 29199_013
Bembridge 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 EAC692690
No Mans Land Fort, Solent, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, 2002

Browndown Battery 33946_016
Browndown Battery, a Victorian beach defence battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Fort Brockhurst 33944_003
Fort Brockhurst, one of the Palmerston Forts in Gosport built in the 19th century to protect Portsmouth, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Fort Monckton 33946_005
Fort Monckton, a bastioned artillery fort built between 1781 and 1790 to defend the western approaches to Portsmouth Harbour, Hampshire, 2020

Gunboat Traverser system 33942_035
Gunboat Traverser system at Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Gunboat Traverser system 33942_030
Gunboat Traverser system at Haslar, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Priddys Hard 33940_025
Priddys Hard, a former Royal Ordnance Depot, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Fort Gilkicker 33939_006
Fort 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_020
Priddys Hard, a former Royal Ordnance Depot, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

Puckpool mortar battery 33889_002
Puckpool mortar battery, Isle of Wight, 2020

Tilbury Fort 33643_005
Tilbury, 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_003
Stokes Bay No. 2 Battery, Hampshire, 2018. A former gun battery of c1860 built as part of the Stokes Bay defences. SZ5898

Fort Monckton 33561_020
Fort Monckton, Hampshire, 2018. A bastioned artillery fort. SZ6197

Fort Gilkicker 33561_012
Fort Gilkicker, Hampshire, 2018. A semi-circular casemated coastal battery. SZ6097

Browndown Battery 33560_013
Browndown Battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5898

Browndown Battery 33560_011
Browndown Battery, Gosport, Hampshire, 2018. SZ5898

Fort Gilkicker 33562_022
Fort Gilkicker, Hampshire, 2018. A semi-circular casemated coastal battery. SZ6097

Deal Castle, Kent DP187707
Deal Castle, Kent. Location view from north east

Pendennis Castle N090099
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. Aerial reconstruction drawing by Ivan Lapper of Pendennis as it may have looked during the siege of 1646

Deal Castle J940471
DEAL CASTLE, Kent. Reconstruction drawing of the castle as newly completed in 1540 by Alan Sorrell

Fort Cumberland N070043
FORT CUMBERLAND, Eastney, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Aerial view

Fort Perch Rock 33151_014
Fort 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_003
Reconstruction 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_002
Cut-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_037
Martello 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_023
Camber 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_001
Fort 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 J020188
LANDGUARD 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 J860338
WALMER CASTLE AND GARDENS, Kent. View of the castle from the beach. The Castle commands approaches to the busy anchorage of The Downs

Calshot Castle K860165
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Aerial view. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

Walmer Castle engraving N070832
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. North west view of Walmer Castle in the county of Kent by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck

St Mawes Castle engraving N070781
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. East view of St Maws Castle in the County of Cornwall by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck

Walmer Castle J860340
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. View of cannons on the gun deck

Fort Brockhurst N990009
FORT BROCKHURST, Gosport, Hampshire. Exterior view from the south of the moated keep. Brick fortress built in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth Harbour

Fort Brockhurst N060992
FORT BROCKHURST, Gosport, Hampshire. Aerial view of the brick fort built in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth Harbour

Deal Castle K971004
DEAL CASTLE, Kent. Cannon on the outer bastions with the keep beyond

Martello Tower, Slaughden N071131
MARTELLO TOWER, Slaughden, Suffolk. View towards the entrance of the quatrofoil, 19th-century defensive fort

Tilbury Fort J910014
TILBURY FORT, Essex. An aerial reconstruction drawing by Alan Sorrell

St Mawes Castle N070912
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View from the sea looking towards the castle

Martello Tower
Situated North of Langney Point, Eastbourne, It was used for defence purposes during the 1939/45 war. IoE 293529

Pillbox, Skipsea DP188366
Pillbox, 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

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