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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: No Mans Land Fort EAC692690

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Catherines Castle N071979

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Dartmouth Castle K021155

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Pendennis Castle N900018

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle N070912

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Blyth blockhouse DP087767

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Aerial view of Deal Castle N110364

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Bembridge Fort 29199_013

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Browndown Battery 33946_016

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Brockhurst 33944_003

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Monckton 33946_005

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gunboat Traverser system 33942_035

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gunboat Traverser system 33942_030

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Priddys Hard 33940_025

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Gilkicker 33939_006

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Priddys Hard 33940_020

Priddys Hard 33940_020
Priddys Hard, a former Royal Ordnance Depot, Gosport, Hampshire, 2020

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Puckpool mortar battery 33889_002

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Tilbury Fort 33643_005

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Stokes Bay Battery 33562_003

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Monckton 33561_020

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Gilkicker 33561_012

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Browndown Battery 33560_013

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Browndown Battery 33560_011

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Gilkicker 33562_022

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle, Kent DP187707

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Pendennis Castle N090099

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle J940471

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Cumberland N070043

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Perch Rock 33151_014

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Coastal battery IC266_003

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello tower IC266_002

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello Tower 29926_037

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Camber Castle 29926_023

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Coastal erosion 28403_001

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Landguard Fort c. 1900 J020188

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)

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Walmer Castle from the beach J860338

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Bull Sand Fort 20620_039

Bull Sand Fort 20620_039
BULL SAND FORT, Humber Estuary. Aerial view. Standing one and a half miles from shore off Spurn Head on a submerged sandbank, it stands 18 metres high and 25metres in diameter

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Calshot Castle K860165

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Walmer Castle engraving N070832

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle engraving N070781

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Walmer Castle J860340

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Brockhurst N990009

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Brockhurst N060992

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle K971004

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello Tower, Slaughden N071131

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Tilbury Fort J910014

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello Tower

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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Pillbox, Skipsea DP188366

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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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gun Emplacement DP169964

Gun Emplacement DP169964
World War 1 gun emplacement, also used in World War 2. View from Blyth Battery, The Links, South Beach, Blyth, Northumberland

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Pillbox DP188407

Pillbox DP188407
Pillbox, Withow Gap, Off Hornsea Road, Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire. Exterior view from South. NGR (TA 18384 54659). Englands First World War Home Front 1914-1918

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Camber Castle 29926_029

Camber Castle 29926_029
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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Camber Castle 29926_019

Camber Castle 29926_019
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

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Kent coastal defences in 1740 J010166

Kent coastal defences in 1740 J010166
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. " Plan of the coast of Kent from Ramsgate to Rye" 1740

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle engraving K041008

Deal Castle engraving K041008
WALMER CASTLE, Kent. Queen Mothers picture collection. Engraving of Deal Castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gun Deck, Pendennis Castle N900017

Gun Deck, Pendennis Castle N900017
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Falmouth, Cornwall. The upper gun deck in action in the late 1540s. England was at war with France from 1542-6 and again in 1549

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: King Charles Castle, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N090215

King Charles Castle, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N090215
KING CHARLESs CASTLE, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Detail of a window found on the North West side of the castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: King Charles Castle, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N090213

King Charles Castle, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N090213
KING CHARLESs CASTLE, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. View of the castle from the South. The ruins of a mid 16th century coastal artillery fort, later garrisoned, hence the name, by Civil War Royalists

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Old Blockhouse, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N100389

Old Blockhouse, Tresco, Isles of Scilly N100389
OLD BLOCKHOUSE, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. Aerial view of the 16th century gun tower built to protect Old Grimsby

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Landguard Fort K060531

Landguard Fort K060531
LANDGUARD FORT, Felixstowe, Suffolk. View of the 1870s casemated battery and its caponier with Fire Commanders Post above and Darells Battery to left

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Camber Castle N100290

Camber Castle N100290
CAMBER CASTLE, Rye, East Sussex. View of central tower from the wall walk

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Camber Castle N100289

Camber Castle N100289
CAMBER CASTLE, Rye, East Sussex. View of central tower from within the outer walls

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Harrys Walls, St Marys, Isles of Scilly N100223

Harrys Walls, St Marys, Isles of Scilly N100223
HARRYs WALLS, St Mary s, Isles of Scilly. Aerial view of incomplete fort. Begun 1551 with two cannon added in 1554

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Calshot Castle J850500

Calshot Castle J850500
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. View from the North-East. This artillery fort, built by Henry VIII to defend the sea passage to Southampton, was recently used as a Navy and RAF base

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Old Blockhouse, Isles of Scilly N090237

Old Blockhouse, Isles of Scilly N090237
OLD BLOCKHOUSE, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. View of the remains of a 16th century gun tower which was designed to protect the Old Grimsby harbour

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Cromwells Castle, Isles of Scilly N090226

Cromwells Castle, Isles of Scilly N090226
CROMWELLs CASTLE, Tresco, Isles of Scilly. View of the castle from the south west

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello Tower, Eastbourne N080778

Martello Tower, Eastbourne N080778
MARTELLO TOWER, No. 64, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Twilight view of the Martello Tower from the beach

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle N080749

St Mawes Castle N080749
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View of the castle with sea and headland beyond

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle K021934

St Mawes Castle K021934
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View of the Castle from the north east with sea in the background

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: East Bastion at sunset, Pendennis Castle N080674

East Bastion at sunset, Pendennis Castle N080674
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. Sunset view across the East Bastion towards St Mawes

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gun battery at Pendennis Castle N080669

Gun battery at Pendennis Castle N080669
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. View over the One Gun Battery towards St Mawes Castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Gun at Pendennis Castle N080441

Gun at Pendennis Castle N080441
PENDENNIS CASTLE, Cornwall. View across the water at sunset, looking towards St Mawes Castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Calshot Castle engraving N070778

Calshot Castle engraving N070778
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. South view of Calshot Castle in Hampshire by Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (1739)

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Calshot Castle K950208

Calshot Castle K950208
CALSHOT CASTLE, Hampshire. Courtyard guns. This is one of the Henry VIII device forts on the Solent, protecting the mouth of Southampton Water

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Hurst Castle K951457

Hurst Castle K951457
HURST CASTLE, Hampshire. View north west from the central tower of the west wing and the inlet

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Fort Brockhurst N990011

Fort Brockhurst N990011
FORT BROCKHURST, Gosport, Hampshire. Exterior view from the south east. Brick fortress built in the 1860s to defend Portsmouth Harbour

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle K970992

Deal Castle K970992
DEAL CASTLE, Kent. View of the castle from the north

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Deal Castle K970991

Deal Castle K970991
DEAL CASTLE, Kent. View of the castle from the north

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle N070910

St Mawes Castle N070910
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View from the sea looking towards the castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes K970786

St Mawes K970786
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. The entrance to the castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle K021933

St Mawes Castle K021933
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View of the castle from lower gun battery with traversing gun in the foreground

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: St Mawes Castle J870443

St Mawes Castle J870443
ST MAWES CASTLE, Cornwall. View across the Carrick Roads towards Pendennis Castle

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Pillbox IoE 466394

Pillbox IoE 466394
World War I Pillbox, Haddiscoe, Norfolk. Built of concrete with steel doors c.1916, a mid C20 weather boarded office building was built on top, adding both functionality and camouflage

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Defending the Coast Rights Managed Collection: Martello Tower at TM 361 419

Martello Tower at TM 361 419
Defensive tower c.1810-1812. IoE 285373

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